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IT’S BLACK THURSDAY, September 30. Ireland’s finance minister, Brian Lenihan, has just announced the final cost of bailing out the country’s banking system: €50 billion. As Euromoney heads out of Dublin airport in a taxi that morning, Lenihan is speaking on Ireland’s national radio, RTE, explaining how the announcement draws a line under the banking crisis and marks the beginning of the restoration of the financial industry to its former glory. The taxi driver is having none of that.
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