Banking inquiry is just a game of cat-and-mouse with no winners

“It’s unlikely that his testimony has changed many minds that have long been made up about his role in these matters.”

Perhaps the understatement of the decade from Michael Clifford (Irish Examiner, June 3), as he struggles hard to seek out some authenticity in Brian Cowen’s tales at the banking enquiry — that magic land of self-exoneration, where villains can be saints and guilt swept away by brazen ‘brush-blasts’ of bombast and polemic-powered invective.

After all, the Dáil committee members tasked with elucidating some truths is really a mirage of modern-day fable and yesteryear lore. Who needs a Greek tragi-comedy, ancient or modern, when we have our own vibrant ‘national’ theatre, generously funded from the public purse, and covered by every media outlet in the land.