Dunne can have his say, but it doesn’t mean the State should let him off
Most people cannot comprehend the brass neck he has exhibited. He has not merely applied for bankruptcy in the US, to avoid the full repayment of his massive debts in Ireland, but he boasted about his actions, and lashed out against many of his detractors in an almost comical outburst published in the Sunday Independent.
All of this, while he has continued to enjoy a highly expensive lifestyle over the last five years, spending money freely that could have been used to reduce his debts further. This, remember, is a man against whom Nama — the national assets management agency, a debt recovery agency that the State owns on behalf of all its citizens — secured a High Court judgment for the repayment of €185 million. He will repay only a tiny fraction of that if his bankruptcy application is successful.