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...Sean Fitzpatrick, who was chairman of Anglo Irish Bank in 2008 when the global financial crisis struck, had been on trial on charges of misleading auditors over details of the bank’s lending....
...Vincent Boland...
...Sean Sherlock, a Labour MP and committee member, said the refusal to attend the hearing was a “missed opportunity” by Mr Cook....
...It was painted by the artist Sean Keating. Higgins saw it hanging in Kennys bookshop in Galway and had to pay the steep asking price in instalments....
...Vincent Boland is the FT’s Ireland correspondent Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images...
...Sean FitzPatrick, the bank’s former chairman, was acquitted in 2014 of all charges related to the alleged share price support scheme, which ultimately failed to prevent the bank from going bankrupt....
...Sean FitzPatrick, the former chairman, was acquitted last year on all charges related to an illegal scheme to support Anglo’s tumbling share price; two other ex-Anglo executives were found guilty on some...
...“It’s time to start spending again — all of that money should go towards investment,” says Sean Healy of Social Justice Ireland....
...Mr Drumm was chief executive of Anglo between 2005 and 2008, when it was brought down after its biggest single customer and shareholder, Sean Quinn, the one-time billionaire, got into financial difficulties...
...Father Sean McDonagh, founder of the Association of Catholic Priests, an organisation that defends the institution of the priesthood and the many Irish priests who did not commit crimes against children,...
...Sean FitzPatrick, its former chairman, was acquitted earlier this year of making illegal loans to investors to prop up the bank’s share price in 2008....
...But on Wednesday, as glorious evening sunshine bathed the steps of Dublin’s criminal courts complex, Sean Fitzpatrick was able to smile at last....
...“Business education at Trinity College has a long history, but it is no longer fit for purpose,” says Seán Melly, a venture capital entrepreneur who led the philanthropic drive and is chairman of the school...
...He resigned in December 2008 along with the then chairman, Sean FitzPatrick, just before the bank was nationalised as the Irish financial system collapsed....
...Sean FitzPatrick, former chairman of Anglo, was acquitted earlier this year of accusations that he made illegal loans to a select group of the bank’s clients to prop up its share price....
...The other is Seán FitzPatrick, who ran the institution that became synonymous with that boom-bust arc: Anglo Irish Bank. It is a tale that many find comforting....
...Sean Fitzpatrick, the banker who became synonymous with the collapse of Ireland’s financial system, has been cleared of making fraudulent loans after one of the longest and most complex corporate trials...
...Ireland’s financial collapse is associated with men such as Sean Quinn, a one-time billionaire who lost his fortune in the slump, or Sean FitzPatrick, of the preposterous Anglo Irish Bank, or the property...
...Two former senior executives at Anglo Irish Bank were found guilty on Thursday of making illegal loans to a group of borrowers to help unwind a big stake in the bank built up by the businessman Sean Quinn...
...Sean FitzPatrick, Anglo’s former chairman, was acquitted of all charges related to the loans at the same trial....
...By Vincent Boland It is the event that the Irish cannot put behind them. Six years ago, the country’s banks collapsed, and brought Ireland down with them....
...Irish businessman Sean Quinn lost €2.4bn in a “spectacular punt” on derivatives used to buy a stake in Anglo Irish Bank, a court heard on Friday....
...The former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick has been found not guilty of some charges related to loans the lender made to members of the family of businessman Sean Quinn, once Ireland’s richest...
...Mr Quinn completed giving evidence on Monday and was followed in the witness box by his son, Sean Quinn Jr. The case continues....
...vincent.boland@ft.com...
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