Irish solution needed for banking problem

There will be no satisfactory Oireachtas enquiry into the banking crisis since such a thing is absolutely unconstitutional.

It all comes down to two words in Article 40 of the Constitution about the State’s duty to protect everybody’s ‘good name’.

As interpreted by the Supreme Court, this means that a banking crisis, however severe, is the merest triviality compared to the danger of anybody making unproven allegations against any of the bankers.