Sensationalism is the second charge that the “Saint’ over at The Dossing Times makes against me.
‘I accept that Irish Corruption is solely about Corruption and is wee bit partial to the odd bit of sensationalism. (‘AIB, the most corrupt bank in Ireland“) I mean how does one know that for sure. Its like saying Roy Keane the Greatest Irish Player there ever will be.).’
While the Roy Keane analogy leaves me a bit puzzled, I am totally amazed that anyone could doubt the claim that Allied Irish Banks is the most corrupt financial institution in the State. Here are just a few figures (from recent times) to back up the claim.
€90 million – DIRT fraud.
€34 million – Foreign exchange fraud
€3.4 million – Trust customers fraud
€1.4 million – Student overcharging fraud
Not to mention the executive’s offshore tax-dodging scheme and the recent Prime Time special (This programme is well worth watching) where AIB staff outlined (through an actor’s voice) how they operated a long-standing, well planned criminal scheme that successfully robbed millions directly from customer accounts.
I would be fascinated and delighted if readers could come up with facts and figures that would establish another Irish financial institution as more corrupt than AIB.
I can only conclude that the “Saint’ is not Irish, lives in some remote part of the planet and is therefore unaware of the criminal record of Allied Irish Banks.
My point about AIB is that you don’t know how corrupt Bank of Ireland or ulster bank is. Tomorrow a story could break saying Bank of Ireland is more corrupt. So to your knowledge AIB is the most corrupt. Does not mean it is.
Also what about the banks that were invovled in the ansbacker affair. Are they not more corrupt.
I can only conclude that the “Saint’ is not Irish, lives in some remote part of the planet
Again you are assuming things you don’t have proof of.
Saint, you’re splitting hairs. Are we to preface every statement about currently known facts with the words “Notwithstanding whatever facts may come to light in the future”.
Or perhaps we should go the whole hog and preface every single utterance with the words “I think…”
“Or perhaps we should go the whole hog and preface every single utterance with the words ‘I think…—
Indeed may be we should. To many falsehoods become fact in this world because of a lack of spiting hairs.
Ahem – your comment should read:
“I think indeed may be we should. I think too many falsehoods become fact in this world because of a lack of spiting hairs.”
I think you read about David Hume.
I think the previous post is missing the word “should”. I think you can probably guess where it goes. I think this will be my last comment.
I think we should be calling for a boycott of AIB. The others may be just as bad…(we don’t know) but we can punish the one we know has been corrupt. The most common form of bank robbery is the bank itself taking less than a euro from every account…AIB did this by “accidentally overcharging” students on currency exchanges.