Bank crisis inquiry to proceed with ‘mental reservation’

The Mire understands that Fianna Fail and Green Party negotiators have reached a compromise that will allow some elements of the inquiry into the banking crisis to be heard in public.

The impasse was broken early this morning when it was apparently agreed that witnesses giving evidence in public would be encouraged to use the “mental reservation” system made popular by the catholic church.

“Bankers, regulators and politicians  are all cunning fellows,” a source said. “Once they know they can use mental reservation we don’t think any of them will inadvertently tell the truth.”

Mental reservation, more commonly known  to the layman as lying, is a system whereby people state the harsh truth in their heads and bland platitudes out loud. Practitioners of mental reservation believe they lead their lives bathed in God’s light.

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