Richard Bruton: Measures to foster jobs paying off

In early 2011, 7,000 private sector jobs were being lost every month. Now, 2,000 jobs are created each month, writes Richard Bruton

LISTENING to conversations between executives at Anglo Irish Bank from 2007 and 2008 has been a shocking experience for many Irish people over recent weeks.

For many of us, it served as a reminder of the madness that went on in the years around the crash. It also provided startling new revelations about what senior bank figures were saying to each other at the time, particularly about their interactions with the Government acting on behalf of the taxpayer at the start of the State’s financial collapse.