Martin in apologetic mood at 1916 memorial

FIANNA FÁIL leader Micheál Martin has pledged his party will “rectify past errors” as he outlined plans to rebuild it “from the ground up”.

He said the previous government “takes the lion’s share of the blame” for decisions that led to the financial crisis, but added that Fine Gael and Labour cannot escape responsibility for “the broad political consensus” that had developed.

A major probe into the failures in Irish banking — the Nyberg Report — will be discussed by the Cabinet tomorrow and published this week.