Public interest, freedom of speech and the right to a fair trial: all these factors form a carefully-balanced relationship between the media and criminal justice system. But just how clear-cut is the law? asks Fergal Crehan.
Having worked in the financial sector, I know arrogant attitudes are commonplace in finance – which is why the Anglo tapes don’t surprise me one bit, writes Carol Redmond.
“I cannot change this now but I can apologise to those who had to listen to it and who were understandably so offended by it,” the former Anglo chief executive said.
The Sinn Féin finance spokesperson has said while release of the tapes is in the public interest there are questions to answer about how they got to the Irish Independent.
Three years before the bank guarantee, the then-CEO was talking up Anglo’s hiring policy and describing the outlook for Ireland as ‘very positive indeed’.
The bank’s former chief executive David Drumm discusses strategy with head of capital markets John Bowe ahead of a crucial meeting with the authorities in September 2008 in the latest Irish Independent tapes.
What angers me about these telephone recordings is that they are only the tip of the iceberg, writes Aaron McKenna, who says a banking investigation is needed now.
John Bowe, Anglo’s head of capital markets in 2008, insists that recorded exchanges between him and another executive took place “during a period of severe and unprecedented market dislocation”.
YESTERDAY, A CYBER attack hit computers at banks, companies and airports across Europe; today the same software is spreading to firms in the US and Australia.
The software demands owners pay $300, or €264, to get access back to their computers (although there’s no guarantee that will happen).
Although hackers have been targeting corporations and governments up until now, there are cases where individuals are hacked and can lose photos, documents, and anything else saved on their computer if they don’t pay.
So if your computer was attacked, would you pay the ransom?
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