Jean Claude Trichet has denied phoning the late Brian Lenihan and instructing him to save the banks, Henry Shefflin selects RTÉ over Sky Sports to launch his GAA punditry career and Cian Healy is spared a conviction despite a judge ruling the tinted windows in his car were ’unsafe’.   These are some of the latest and most read stories on irishexaminer.com this evening.

Further evidence of how the ECB interfered in eurozone countries’ economies, including Ireland’s, has been revealed by former ECB president Jean Claude Trichet.

After three years of asking, the famous Trichet letter finally saw the light of day, write Gavin Sheridan and Fred Logue.

Letters tell us more about the bailout story, writes Europe Correspondent Ann Cahill

The ECB has given a cool response to suggestions its officials should appear before the Oireachtas banking inquiry, whose members believe fresh questions have been raised with the release of correspondence from the height of the eurozone crisis.

The culture of secrecy and absence of accountability within the ECB is striking and must change, writes Lucinda Creighton.

Fianna Fáil has admitted it should not have allowed itself to be "threatened" by the ECB in the run up to the €67.5bn EU/IMF bailout in November 2010.

The chairman of the planned banking inquiry, Ciarán Lynch, has said it is "disappointing" that former ECB president Jean Claude Trichet has made public statements that he would not be giving evidence at the hearings.

The refusal by the European Central Bank (ECB) to release a letter sent to the late Brian Lenihan in the run-up to the bailout in 2010 “wasted an opportunity for fairness and transparency”, according to the European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly.