31.03.2011 - 07:21 [ bbc ]

The unbelievable truth about Ireland and its banks

Ireland‘s central bank and new government will confirm on Thursday that the hole in the country‘s banks is even wider, deeper and darker than seemed to be the case last November, when those bust banks forced the country to go with a begging bowl to the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for 67.5bn euros (£59bn) of rescue loans.