Banking Inquiry: O’Donnell hands over ‘bloody keys’ as bank airbrushes past

These bank AGMs have turned out some right fun in recent years. It’s an opportunity for the little people to have a go at the shower of bankers who dragged the economy over the abyss, yet managed to save themselves.

Yesterday, it wasn’t an average Joe or Josephine who lit in the Bank of Ireland AGM, but a former master of the universe, one who, under different circumstances, might have been up at top table as a member of “court” himself, Brian O’Donnell.

A simple twist of dates ensured that O’Donnell would have to vacate Gorse Hill at around the same time that the bank which had him turfed out gathered for its AGM. It was too much of an opportunity for the evicted former billionaire to let pass.