THE Green Party leadership has been accused of a “con job” by grassroot members who were kept in the dark about major parts of the NAMA plan when they voted to support it at a special convention last month.

The committee stage of the Dail debate on the Government's Nama legislation is due to get underway at Leinster House later today.

Government TDs returning to the Dáil after summer recess today faced angry protests against the State’s National Asset Management Agency (Nama) scheme and allegations of a bail-out for financial institutions.

Sinn Féin today urged all TDs and Senators to back its plan for a referendum on bad bank Nama if the controversial scheme is passed by the Oireachtas.

Sinn Féin TD Aengus O'Snodaigh is calling on politicians with bank shares to absent themselves from the debate on NAMA in the Dáil next week.

THE moves by the Government yesterday to limit taxpayers’ exposure to property bad debts in the Irish banks had little impact on market sentiment.

IBOA — The Finance Union welcomes the recent suggestion by UCD economist Colm McCarthy on the need for a public inquiry into what went wrong with the Irish banking system.

NOT even the great, soul-filling genius of Samuel Beckett or Flann O’Brien, our great champions of tragedy and irony, could have imagined a more appropriate symmetry.