‘Leading expert’ on banking crisis leaves Fine Gael

He was lauded as a “leading expert” on the financial crisis by Fine Gael when it announced Peter Mathews would be running in the 2011 general election.

But the man who made his name as a pinstriped banking expert and panel stalwart on TV3’s Vincent Browne show, proved to be more trouble to the party than he was worth.

Briefly a member of the Progressive Democrats at the time of the its foundation, he joined Fine Gael weeks before it was announced in Jan 2011 that he would be put on the party’s ticket.