Paschal Donohoe was dead on when he said Ireland’s standing had not experienced the current week’s Bank of Ireland disaster. The really fascinating inquiry, however, is what notoriety has Ireland to lose?

As any Irish Consulate official around Europe will tell the Pastor, on the off chance that asked, Ireland’s monetary standing will be connected for quite a while to come to its status as an apparent expense shelter, specifically for tech organizations like Apple, and the financial breakdown.

The current week’s Bank of Ireland ATM “misfire” fitted into that insight. German news organization DPA composed of “tumultuous scenes” in a report got by many outlets from everyday papers and Harsh magazine to securities exchange diaries. Berlin’s Tagesspiegel everyday cited, in English, a Limerick Chief admonition that “the town is in disorder” and that police must be brought in Dundalk.

Germany’s Deutsch Welle unfamiliar news administration educated the world regarding Ireland’s “free cash misfire” while Austria’s public telecaster ORF talked about “limits overlooked”.

The most intriguing inclusion of Ireland this week, however, came from Switzerland, the capital of prudent banking.

While the Blick newspaper revealed how “strange action” at ATMs pulled in the consideration of police, a Neue Zürcher Zeitung report on a “rebuking Irish situation” had nothing to do with the current week’s run on ATMs.


Rather the paper was investigating how best to keep away from a Somewhat English Irish Bank-style debacle and the bank ensure. It had created misfortunes to date of €45 billion, the paper revealed, and was “still in the heads of Swiss authorities”.

They are wrestling with the subject of how best to manage UBS. Subsequent to gulping bombing rival Credit Suisse, UBS presently has a monetary record of 1,300 billion francs (€1.358 billion) or multiple times the size of the Swiss economy.

A Swiss master commission is at present examining how best to control such a financial giant to limit moral peril and “too-enormous to-fizzle” rationale. Plug conceived UBS administrator Colm Kelleher is undeniably put to help the gathering on staying away from Somewhat English 2.0. Should questions emerge, he might try and make sense of the Bank of Ireland ATM disarray.

For the present, Mr Donohoe ought to cheer up from some German-language insight on such off-kilter circumstances: ist der Ruf erst ruiniert/lebt es sich ganz ungeniert, which deciphers as: when a standing is destroyed, life is free and simple.

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