Oppositieleider Michael Martin: we deden het voor de euro (en)

Micheal Martin, head of Ireland's now-in-opposition Fianna Fail, has admitted for the first time that Irish taxpayers were left with the unpopular €34bn bill from Anglo Irish Bank because the government felt under pressure to save the single currency. "We did it for the euro," he told the Herald.

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