SiteServ sale: Dukes’ gentle anger may be deceptive

Johnny Rotten once hollered into a microphone that anger is an energy but the anger that Alan Dukes expressed at his press conference at first seemed akin to wind energy supplied by a five-year-old blowing the seeds off a dandelion clock.

For while the Siteserv affair also stinks of something rotten in the relations between the Department of Finance and the corpse of Anglo Irish Bank, there appeared to be more chance of the former Sex Pistol becoming a banker than of Mr Dukes unleashing any serious missiles.

“I feel extremely angry,” he said in the opening remarks of what was to become an hour and five minutes of apparent evidence to the contrary.