FitzPatrick applies for State to pay his legal costs

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick is to apply to the State to pay his legal fees from his recent criminal trial.

Mr FitzPatrick was acquitted in March of engaging in an illegal share support scheme. His fellow Anglo directors Pat Whelan and William McAteer were convicted on 10 counts of providing illegal loans to the group of investors known as the Maple Ten to prop up the Anglo share price.

Yesterday, counsel for Mr FitzPatrick, Michael O’Higgins, asked Judge Martin Nolan to fix a date for a costs application on behalf of his client. Mr FitzPatrick, aged 65, did not attend the short hearing.