The latest tape recordings from Anglo Irish Bank have revealed the moments that its senior executives first considered having to ask the Central Bank for state aid.

Alan Dukes has said he was among the board members at Anglo Irish bank who handed over taped conversations of senior bankers to gardaí.

The trials of former Anglo chairman Sean FitzPatrick and other senior executives could be delayed for years due to the controversy surrounding the leak of explosive tapes from the toxic bank, the Irish Examiner has learned.

The Finance Minister Michael Noonan has said people shouldn't be "mucking around in Garda business" when it comes to the Anglo tapes or recordings from other banks.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has warned the banks they must be prepared to hand over tapes of internal conversations regarding the bank guarantee and bailout.

Former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan would have been "more than able" to punch Anglo boss David Drumm back, his aunt Mary O'Rourke has said today.

The Finance Minister Michael Noonan is calling on the former CEO of Anglo Irish Bank to come home and face the music.

The latest recordings from Anglo Irish Bank have revealed that Bank of Ireland believed that AIB and Anglo were "lending money to every cowboy in town".

The Anglo tapes only highlight greedy attitudes at the root of Ireland’s failed economic model of the past, the President said.

Further telephone conversations released by the Sunday Independent today have revealed the lengths to which the former CEO of Anglo Irish Bank David Drumm was willing to go to pressurise Brian Lenihan into giving money to the troubled bank.

A Fine Gael TD has branded David Drumm's apology in today's Sunday Business Post as "pathetic" and "insulting" to the Irish people.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm has apologised for using inappropriate language before the failing institution received a massive cash bailout from the Government.

Another tape has emerged where David Drumm and John Bowe talks about Sean Quinn and his shares.

Fresh revelations in the Anglo-tapes scandal about Brian Cowen’s administration shows his party was willing to save the failing bank at any cost, his political opponents claimed.

It has emerged that the former CEO of Anglo Irish Bank David Drumm said he would "probably punch" the former Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

David Drumm believed that the Fianna Fáil-led Government's external advisors Merrill Lynch were 'disproportionately angry' with Anglo Irish Bank.

Fresh revelations in the Anglo-tapes scandal show that Brian Cowen's administration refused to shut down Anglo Irish Bank despite warnings from the Government's own external advisers, Merrill Lynch.

'Jail the bankers' protests will take place in Dublin and Galway today.

The German people are not renowned for their sense of humour, so nobody should be surprised they have been distinctly upset by John Bowe’s recital of “Deutschland Über Alles,” or David Drumm’s suggestion that Anglo Irish Bank should “get the fuckin’ money in” from investors in countries such as Germany and Britain.

ONE word has been largely missing from the reams of coverage of the Anglo Tapes and that word is... morality.

THOUGH singing Deutschland über Alles was a nice touch, it would be far more helpful if our notorious political/financial/useless class actually started speaking German full time.

David Drumm cemented efforts to hide a multimillion-dollar American investment property from Anglo Irish Bank within hours of his explosive comments caught on tape urging other executives to “get the money in”.

Enda Kenny has condemned a “toxic nexus” linking the last Government and bailed-out bankers as he tried to make the Anglo scandal stick to Fianna Fáil.

We need smaller banks that are not ‘too big to fail’, writes Brian Lucey

David Drumm carried out a number of personal financial moves that coincided with Anglo’s demise, writes investigative correspondent Conor Ryan

The infamous bank guarantee scheme is the basis for a new play, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Forty employees of the former Anglo Irish Bank, IBRC in special liquidation, have been made redundant at the bank’s London and Belfast offices.

The Anglo tapes story has put Ireland on the international news agenda for all the wrong reasons this week.

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has weighed in on the Anglo Irish Bank tapes controversy, saying such revelations are "damaging democracy".

The Government moved to try turn anger over the Anglo tapes onto former Fianna Fáil ministers by insisting they reveal what they knew about the scandal.

The country’s second most senior Catholic cleric says the “smugness” laid bare in the Anglo tapes jars with the desperate conditions many victims of the economic collapse now suffer.

For many Irish people, the past five years have been hell.

ALL of the obnoxious wrongs being revealed at Anglo Irish Bank do not make the equally abhorrent actions of the Quinn family right.

Anglo Irish Bank bosses were ordered to go down to the Central Bank with “arms swinging” to demand a multi-billion euro taxpayer bailout, latest leaked tapes reveal.

Gardaí and financial watchdogs are examining recorded phone calls from inside the bust Anglo Irish Bank to determine if executives broke the law.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said that he sticking to his plans to hold an Oireachtas inquiry, but has left open the possibility to re-run the referendum to give more powers to Parliamentary inquiries.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore expressed his relief today that the Anglo tapes did not emerge when Ireland was in debt-deal negotiations with European authorities.

Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen is under deepening pressure to come clean over the bank guarantee scheme.

In the hours leading up to the bank guarantee in September 2008, the CEO of Anglo, David Drumm, joked about the haemorrhage of cash from the bank.

The Government is considering holding another referendum to give politicians more powers to hold inquiries.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny pledged to uncover the truth behind “the axis of collusion” between Anglo bankers and Fianna Fáil but rejected calls for an independent banking probe.

Tapes unearthed in 2009 show regulators knew some of Anglo’s difficulties, investigative correspondent Conor Ryan.

A banking inquiry faces many obstacles in even getting off the ground, writes political correspondent Mary Regan.

There have been many banking scandals in Ireland through the years but after the initial outrage, nothing ever really changes, says Michael Clifford.