High Court disqualifies former NIB managers from holding directorships

Two former senior managers with National Irish Bank has been disqualified by the High Court from involvement in the management of a company on grounds of unfitness arising from the findings of the investigation into the 1990s tax evasion scandal in the bank.

Today at the High Court 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 Ltd (NIBFS) which were