Ms Geraldine Kennedy:

I do not remember the detail of it and I do not have it before me now. I remember him getting that interview. It would have been one of the areas where we would have demonstrated different views in The Irish Times. One has to consider, I think, the position that I was in as editor as the whole story involved. It was sort of moving in stages. There was no point where I would have said there would be a crash or there would be a soft landing. In any case, I would not have the expertise to make that personal judgment myself, but what we were very careful to do was to give every view on the issue and give everybody a say. There was nobody who offered opinions to the opinions page or other pages of The Irish Timeswho was not allowed to express a view.