Starchy and Hunch leave their mark over Anglo tango

TREACHERY? Infamy? Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me!

Brian Cowen was protesting – rather too much – that he had not sold dear old Ireland down the river in order to save the skins of Fianna Fáil’s great mates in the Anglo Irish circle of gold.

The accusation has been bubbling just below the surface ever since that curious night in September 2008 when the two Brians took the financially suspect decision to include Anglo – and its tens of billions of euro of high risk subordinated debt – safely inside the bank guarantee scheme.