Baffled by bank chairman’s inability to recall crucial bankruptcy conversation

Imagine the chairman of a national bank not being able to recall his CEO suggesting that their bank is so dangerously off-kilter vis-a-vis its day-to-day liquidity that it is near to bankruptcy.

That this memory lapse pertains to the most cataclysmic ‘moonlight’ meeting in a country’s fiscal/financial history is flabbergasting.

Perhaps the ‘B’-word is just simply too much for a bank chairman to stomach, and thus his self-protective memory armour battens down the bolts to the recall vaults.

This could then serve to ensure a safe passage through the eye of a very sticky storm.

There could be a case for establishing a state-run facility geared to rehabilitating all hapless victims of memory-loss towards a more ‘mature recollection’.

This could go some way to fully and appropriately authenticating such tricky, lingering crises, especially the key harrowing milestones of our recent and persistent economic downfall.

It could be, of course, that austerity is the real malignant culprit for all such memory loss. Surviving on paltry peanuts can, indeed, dull the savage intellect.

Let us all eat cake in sympathy!

Jim Cosgrove,

Chapel Street,

Lismore,

Co.Waterrford