John Burns
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307 appearances
11 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Aug
John Burns’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And second of all, how much of this comes down to the direction of Michael Fingleton?
Was he, it'll be fine.
Don't worry about it.
We'll make that back.
It's grand.
This will never end.
That clearly was the mindset at the time and how wrong it was.
Well, I mean, Brian Lenehan famously said we all partied.
Let's be straight about this.
I accept that there were failures in the political system.
I accept that I have to take responsibility as a member of the governing party during that period for what happened.
But let's be fair about it.
We all partied.
And that's a much disputed notion.
I'm not sure it's right even still, but certainly all the bankers partied.
Irish Nationwide was the worst.
For its size, it was worse than the others.
And that's saying something because we know how bad Anglo was.
But the proof of it is that when NAMA took over its bad loans, they did the biggest haircut on Irish nationwide loans than they did on any of the others, including Anglo.
It was an average of 72%.
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