The water charges protests are unlikely to go away because they’re about much more than water charges, writes Dr Rory Hearne

THE bank bailout could cost taxpayers a staggering €75 billion – and Anglo Irish Bank alone could account for €40bn of it.

One of Ireland’s largest banks was tonight ordered to come up with €7.4bn within weeks or face being nationalised as part of a masterplan to clean up the country’s banking mess.

Taxpayers will learn tomorrow the scale of their latest multibillion-euro bill to clean up the financial mess in the country’s banking system.