Publish guarantee scheme files or be damned is advice to Cowen

WHEN Brian Cowen was accused this week of “economic treason” for including Anglo in the Government’s bank guarantee scheme, he angrily denied the charge and insisted he had only ever acted in the country’s best interests.

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore, who had made the charge, had a simple retort: “Publish the advice.”

Gilmore’s suspicion is that the Government included Anglo in the scheme merely to “save the skins of a number of individuals, some of whom were connected to Fianna Fáil and whose property interests and prosperity were bound up” with the bank’s fortunes.