RTÉ doom-mongers led support for nation to default on bank debt

AS we look back on the bailout years from the vantage point of our exit, there will be further calls for a wide-ranging enquiry as to why our banks failed us so badly.

While we’re at it we should enquire, also, why our media failed us so spectacularly.

As Minister Michael Noonan said recently in a Morning Ireland interview on our bailout exit, RTÉ had doom-mongers on from “dawn till dark” telling us to cut our losses and default.