Acceptance of Drumm’s evidence will be ‘close call’

It will be a “close call” whether the banking probe can consider former Anglo chief David Drumm’s written evidence after the idea of allowing him to given video-link testimony was torpedoed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, a senior source has warned.

The Oireachtas probe was meeting today to decide on the issue after Drumm’s offer to give evidence from the US threw the process into turmoil.

Some members insisted they would not attend such a hearing if it went ahead as they said it could be seen as legitimising Drumm’s decision not to return to Ireland to face questions over his role in the Anglo collapse.