The Front Pages
The fallout from Sunday’s tragic Donegal car-crash continues in the Irish Independent today, with a front-page photo of the family and sister of victim Ciaran Sweeney at his funeral yesterday.
As for the Independent’s main headline, Anglo Irish Bank is once again in the spotlight, with a report that the former financial regulator Patrick Neary told Taoiseach Brian Cowen that the bank was in good health only 72 hours before the Government stepped in to save it – with the headline reading ‘Neary gave Anglo green light on eve of bailot.’
Neither stories are featured on the front of today’s Irish Times, which instead runs with an article concering the Vatican clearing the way for lay involvement in canon law trials, the first major review of church in how it deals with clerical child abuse for nine years.
The Times also reports that former Minister for Justice Willie O’Dea has been informed by gardai that he will not face perjury case prosecution. A relieved O’Dea told the paper “I knew I hadn’t done that.â€
