Heads the bank wins, harp the customer loses

There’s an old saying that says ‘what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander’.

Can any one of us say with any measure of credibility that every debtor in Ireland is treated equally or even equitably? The answer is a resounding no.

Nothing is more of an exemplar of the truth of this than the treatment of the banks and bankers by the Government, the mandarins and even the troika compared with the treatment of those who have found themselves in hard times, more often than not, because of factors outside of their personal control.