NO further capital injections by the State are necessary in Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS), the Central Bank has said.

BEFORE the good people from BlackRock Solutions and Boston Consulting Group leave the jurisdiction, they might be asked to do an additional stress test — on Ireland’s exchequer. Larry Fink and the lads carry the ultimate status of credibility worldwide. No one seems to have followed the logical conclusion of their analysis, beyond banks, for their state guarantor.

THE fifth stress test exercise on the Irish banks — bringing the total bailout bill for the country’s financial sector to around €70 billion — “doesn’t score highly on fairness” to the taxpayer, but marks the best way forward, according to Central Bank Governor Patrick Honohan.