Not a Trader, and don't know any, but you have to think that Standard & Poor is going to downgrade all Irish banks' share prices close to when the government has to make payment on its Sovereign Debt, Wall St. wants it to default and what better way to help it along is to downgrade some of the shares the government owns. BOI just got downgraded to BBB, a notch or two before 'junk' status
, so wait til it hits 'junk' status, and then buy because the government won't default, and the share price will increase. Now, I'd be interested in AIB more than BOI, AIB has a lot of outside interests and friends in high places.
Whatever you do study how often the downgrades occur, and find out when the government debt payments are-BUY, BUY, BUY-AIB