Banking crisis in many ways 'home-made'

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The report on the causes of the banking crisis has found that fiscal policy, bank governance and financial supervision left the Irish economy vulnerable to a deep crisis, with costly and extended social fallout.

The report by international banking experts Klaus Regling and Max Watson says that while the Irish banking crisis bears the clear imprint of global influences, it was in crucial ways a 'home-made' crisis.

Read the full Honohan report here

Read the full Regling & Watson report here

Watch Sean Whelan, Economics Correspondent, talk to Central Bank Governor Patrick Honohan here

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