I watched the Public Accounts Committee gathering in Doheny & Nesbitt’s pub on Dublin’s Baggot Street on Thursday with an old friend, Colm McCarthy. A pair of ageing curmudgeons, we sat like the Muppets’ Statler and Waldorf watching an argument on a television in an Irish pub. Colm is a famous economist who learned about the duties expected of a company director while he sat on the board of the ESB, our most consistently successful semi-state company. He also knows about ethics, finance and corporate governance; sloppy practices annoy him and don’t get him started about RTÉ.  I took notes:…

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