The former chair of IBRC Alan Dukes says he made comments about people from border counties because of a spate of violence following the rescue of Quinn Industrial Holdings lstwrd cooper_m
"Those remarks were entirely unjustified, they offended a great number of people.
"I was thinking really about the wave of violence and intimidation that followed the action that we took to rescue what we could from the Quinn Group" while working with the Irish Banking Resolution Corporation."There was sabotage of material and equipment, and intimidation - all of that was dreadful.
"It didn't in any sense justify for the remarks I made. which as I say apologise for without any qualification."
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