Banking inquiry - Trichet’s trio of haughty denials

THE haughty arrogance of Jean Claude Trichet, who last week snubbed Ireland’s banking inquiry and insisted that Oireachtas members attend upon him at his venue of choice, is trumped only by his gross insensitivity to the memory of the former finance minister, the late Brian Lenihan.

It is one thing to kick a man when he’s down, it is quite another to do so when he is dead.

But Mr Trichet may have met his match in the form of Mr Lenihan’s feisty aunt, Mary O’Rourke, who has vowed to reassert her nephew’s good name.