The banks and the politicians have sabotaged a generation

We need to talk about the banks — we really do. And we need to keep talking about them, because everything that is wrong with this country, today, stems from them.

To fix things, we need to treat the cause, not the symptom, and the cause, in this case, is the banks.

The Central Bank governor, Patrick Honohan, has told us that guaranteeing the junior bondholders was ‘clearly a mistake’, but we knew this already.