Yes, the country was going to hell but we kept quiet - For the good of the country!?

I love how the cockroaches start coming out into the light again to tell us how clever and stoic they were, but never a thought for how much they could have done for us if they'd had the guys to say it when it needed to be said. I have a certain sympathy for Brian Lenihan in that he wasn't up to the job and had to carry a gobshite into the bargain, but to claim that his silence was for the good of the country only compounds the rubbish that Cowen was spouting to the end (who, if he had only expended a fraction of the energy and conviction he showed when trying to defend his incompetence into the running of the country, would have done something towards ameliorating the mess we're in at the moment).