Ireland’s finance minister Brian Lenihan recently described the state of his country’s banks, fully revealed by the audit for the NAMA toxic loan insurance scheme, as “truly shocking”.

“At every hand’s turn our worst fears have been surpassed,” he said. “Some institutions were worse than others. But the...

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