Eamon Quinn: Irish banking hubris, not Sean FitzPatrick, caused the crash

Anglo was only one of a number of banks that engaged in lending to commercial property developers involving sums that to this day remains incredible

Sean FitzPatrick leaving court in January 2013 after the date for his trial and that of two other Anglo executives was set for the following year. File picture

At the start of a marathon trial, Judge Martin Nolan expressed his concerns that the Anglo Irish bankers should get a fair hearing.

It was April 2014 and the first of several trials of prominent Anglo and other bankers was about to get underway. Judge Nolan went on to refer to Anglo as "probably the most famous, and some would say infamous, bank in this country".