Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Ms Geraldine Kennedy:
I am not sure where I would start doing it. I do not know what I could do that we did not do. We reported all news reports fairly and gave their views, some of vested interests, some of banks. We particularly pursued academic economists. We had as diverse a range of views as we possibly could in the opinion pages on the state of the economy. We employed an economics editor all the time which other newspapers often did not do. We were very cautious and raising concerns in leading articles for a long time up to the bust. I do not know what we could have done. I would love to be able to say if I pressed that button and did that, then would I have been Morgan Kelly but I would not.
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