Banking Inquiry: ‘What’s another year for someone who’s lost everything?’

Where was Johnny Logan when his country needed him most, asks Michael Clifford.

We could have done with the Eurovision’s finest, to serenade the nation through the darkest hours of the financial crisis, asking what’s another year of all this grief.

It turns out that Johnny was up to his oxters in the engine room of the government. Yesterday, the banking inquiry heard that the “Johnny Logan Working Group” was set up in the Department of Finance during the 2010 bailout.