Adams: Lenihan should do his ‘patriotic duty’ and resign

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan should do his “patriotic duty” and resign, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams has said.

Speaking at the party’s ard fheis in Dublin, Mr Adams said the Government had failed the people, opting to “pick their pockets and mug lower- and middle-income earners”.

By contrast, the Fianna Fáil-Green coalition was giving billions of euro to the banks “with almost no strings attached”, he said. “It is spending public money, the people’s money, to bail out its property developer friends in Anglo Irish Bank, despite the way Anglo Irish and Irish Life & Permanent cooked their books.”