爱尔兰人独自一人留在一个黑暗的房间里，决定了他们真正想做的是购买爱尔兰。彼此。一位叫摩根·凯利（Morgan Kelly）的爱尔兰经济学家，他对爱尔兰银行损失的估计是最有先见之明的，他进行了一项后面的计算，使所有爱尔兰银行的财产相关损失约为10060亿欧元。 {认为$ 10.6万亿美元。}以汇率流入爱尔兰国库，仅爱尔兰银行亏损将在未来四年内吸收每一分钱的爱尔兰税款。
(Left alone in a dark room with a pile of money, the Irish decided what they really wanted to do with it was buy Ireland. From each other. An Irish economist named Morgan Kelly, whose estimates of Irish bank losses have been the most prescient, has made a back-of-the-envelope calculation that puts the property-related losses of all Irish banks at roughly 106 billion euros. {Think $10.6 trillion.} At the rate money flows into the Irish treasury, Irish bank losses alone would absorb every penny of Irish taxes for the next four years.)