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Infographic: How much have the Irish put into their banks?

As this image reveals, quite a bit.

THOUGH WE ALL HOPE that the next round of European banking stress tests – due in a year’s time – won’t reveal any further holes in Ireland’s banks, our bill for rescuing an ailing banking sector remains the largest single burden on the Irish Exchequer.

Ireland’s so far put €64.1 billion into its banks – having to borrow much of it from the EU and IMF – a figure which this infographic from Stephen Donnelly TD reveals to be far in excess of what the people of other countries have had to put in.

The graphic underlines the impact that the banking crisis has had on the average Irish pay cheque.

Image: Stephen Donnelly; design by Cream Graphics.

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    Jul 17th 2012, 3:09 PM

    Good work.

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    Jul 17th 2012, 3:42 PM

    Well done Gardai. !!!

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    Jul 17th 2012, 3:17 PM

    Great news, I felt uneasy being in there today!

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    Jul 17th 2012, 4:20 PM

    Fair play to the Gardai.

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    Jul 17th 2012, 4:21 PM

    that Post Office is isolated from the Main Road …great result of Gardai

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    Jul 17th 2012, 6:17 PM

    Good work Gardai! I can’t help wondering if all the recent post and cash transport robberies are connected. They occurred in a cluster and the arrests are happening in a cluster as well. One wonders if there wasn’t an unerased white board at the first arrest location with “get shotgun to Denis after the transport job” “Buy new hammer” and “have Claudia steal another car” scribbled on it.

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