Senator Shane Ross is to run in the upcoming General Election.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan’s suggestion that people were not interested in the top job at Bank of Ireland because the pay was too low sparked outrage yesterday.

A roomful of 800 angry shareholders, some of whom had lost thousands of euro in life savings in Anglo Irish Bank, today provided as much tension and drama as when the first Irish parliament convened in the same venue exactly 90 years ago.

Government ministers must examine the expense accounts of all state agencies under their remit, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said today.