ANYONE who enjoys black humour, that revealing and cathartic safety valve, will have been tickled by the coincidence that the Hollywood film about the 2008 banking collapse The Big Short reached Irish cinemas in the week our long-delayed and greatly constrained banking inquiry was expected to publish some, but only some, of its conclusions.

There are fears for 2,000 jobs in local development, as the Government moves plans to align local government and local development.