FG: Tapes show that FF 'was firmly wedded to Anglo'

Fresh revelations in the Anglo-tapes scandal about Brian Cowen’s administration shows his party was willing to save the failing bank at any cost, his political opponents claimed.

The former taoiseach’s government refused to shut down the Anglo-Irish Bank despite warnings from their external financial advisers, Merrill Lynch, that the institution was a “basket case”, the latest batch of recordings published in the Irish Independent showed.