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HOPEFULLY, Finance Minister Brian Lenihan hasn’t read any foreign newspapers over the past 48 hours.

If he did, he may have become frustrated with more than just the Irish media for the “constant debate” about our growing banking crisis.

As the full expected cost of the Anglo Irish bailout was made public on Thursday morning, at the same time as it was announced AIB had been effectively nationalised, newspapers across Europe, north America and Asia appeared to place the final nail in the Irish economy’s coffin.