We’re banking on you to do the decent thing

IRISH banks owe every citizen of this state big time and it’s time bank bosses started to think about reparations.

The unedifying row between the religious orders and the Government, on the failure of the religious to stump up their multi-million euro contribution to the abuse compensation fund, sets out how not to do things.

It has yet to fully sink in to the heads of those at the top of the banks that, number one the state is their single-biggest shareholder and secondly, but for the state they would be out of business.