Intelligence should drive you to question others

In an article on Brian Cowen’s evidence to the banking inquiry (Irish Examiner, July 23), Michael Clifford says of Cowen, “He appears to have shown a serious lack of curiosity about what was unfolding around him”. 

He also wrote: “Here was a highly intelligent politician who was well capable of dealing with anything thrown at him by the inquiry committee.”

Surely a “highly intelligent” Taoiseach should have shown a lively curiosity about the nation he was charged with leading?