Bankers reprise Dáil storming as €22bn love affair endorsed

BANKERS were allowed to run riot at Leinster House again yesterday as they stormed the Dáil chamber and once more held the nation to ransom.

Bankers reprise Dáil storming as €22bn love affair endorsed

Just hours after anti-capitalist protesters briefly burst a few yards through the wide open main gate of the parliamentary compound before being beaten back by gardaí, the plight of the greedy plutocrats who brought the country to the brink of economic ruin again dominated the horseshoe shaped debating chamber.

And the unedifying spectacle allowed Brian Cowen to continue to reveal the strangely obsequious nature of his one-sided relationship with the banks, which seems to consist of him putting billions of taxpayers euros into them, but never getting anything worthwhile back in return – like a credit flow, or basic respect.

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