Two former NIB officials disqualified from managing a company

TWO former senior managers with National Irish Bank have been disqualified from involvement in the management of a company on grounds of unfitness arising from the investigation into the 1990s tax evasion scandal.

At the High Court yesterday, Mr Justice Roderick Murphy ruled that Patrick Byrne, St Helen’s Road, Booterstown, Co Dublin, and Michael Keane, Corr Castle, Howth, Co Dublin, were part of senior management within NIB and National Irish Bank Financial Services responsible for certain serious findings of improper practices.

However, Mr Justice Murphy did not make any disqualification order against another former senior manager, Dermot Boner, the bank’s chief manager of retail during the early to mid nineties.