The wife of former Anglo Chairman Sean Fitzpatrick has told the High Court, after he resigned from Anglo in late 2008, he told her she was “not to worry”.

A former senior banker at Anglo Irish Bank has told a jury that the practice of fast-tracking the approval of credit limits at the bank was not normal.

A jury has heard that senior bankers in Irish Life and Permanent were “scared shitless” as transactions were carried out with Anglo Irish Bank in September 2008.

The judge at the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chief David Drumm has today given the jury a lengthy warning as proceedings break for the courts' Easter break.

A former senior employee at Anglo Irish Bank said he saw a banker at a foreign investment meeting crying because he had invested in Lehmans and “now there was just nothing”.

David Drumm wrote to senior Anglo colleagues and suggested they meet to discuss key issues “with a war cabinet urgency” in November 2008, a jury has heard.

Latest: A senior executive at Anglo Irish Bank said that the plan to source a funding shortfall from another bank grew from €1bn to €7bn in the weeks leading to the bank's year end, writes Sarah-Jane Murphy.

A witness has told the trial of former Anglo executive David Drumm that he realised there was trouble ahead after receiving a phone call from a colleague to say that the interbank market was “drying up”.

David Drumm, the former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, authorised deals which lead to the falsification of the bank’s balance sheet, a jury has been told at the opening of his conspiracy to defraud trial.

The Prosecution is to lay out its case today in the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank boss David Drumm.

The State’s botched investigation against ex-banker Seán FitzPatrick was undermined by the fact that untrained officials were tasked with taking key evidence because other prioritised Anglo investigations were draining vital resources.

The Court of Appeal has upheld the convictions of two former bank executives, jailed last year for a €7.2bn conspiracy to defraud the public about the true health of Anglo Irish Bank in 2008.

The Dáil has heard claims that the trial of Sean FitzPatrick was deliberately allowed to collapse.

The Sean FitzPatrick judgment highlights the “difficulties and challenges” in investigating and prosecuting white-collar crime, according to a legal expert.

The State body charged with prosecuting white-collar crime was subject to scathing criticism from across the floor in the Dáil yesterday, in the wake of the acquittal of ex-Anglo chairman Seán FitzPatrick.

Former Anglo Irish Chairman Sean FitzPatrick told gardaí that he had no reason to hide the full extent of his loans from the bank, his trial has heard.

A former auditor of Anglo Irish Bank has told the trial of Sean FitzPatrick that auditors had no history of issues with loans to the bank's directors.

The man in charge of auditing Anglo Irish Bank for seven years has told a jury that he would have considered an alleged refinancing arrangement of loans to Sean FitzPatrick as significant to the audit.

Lawyers defending Sean FitzPatrick have accused investigators of crafting and creating statements in order to get evidence to prosecute the former Anglo Irish Bank chairman.

Gardaí have never investigated a State official's destruction of documents related to the investigation of alleged crimes by former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick, a trial has heard.

Sean Fitzpatrick’s trial has heard the main investigator in his case shredded a number of documents related to the investigation.

The lead investigator into allegations of financial crimes by former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick has accepted that aspects of his investigation were “colossally prejudiced”.

The jury in Sean Fitzpatrick’s trial has been hearing about multi-million euro loans approved to him by Anglo Irish Bank in 2006 and 2007.

Three former bank executives jailed for conspiracy are set to bring appeals against their convictions next March.

Donegal native Willie McAteer graduated from UCD with a BA in commerce and a master’s in business studies.

Three former banking executives convicted of taking part in a €7bn fraud will be sentenced on Friday.

A jury has acquitted the former finance director of Irish Life and Permanent (IL&P) of helping Anglo Irish Bank defraud the markets in 2008 in a €7.2bn scheme.

Update 6.29pm: The jury in the longest-running criminal trial in the State’s history has gone home for the long weekend and will resume its deliberations on Tuesday.

Two former executives from Anglo Irish Bank have been found guilty of conspiring to defraud the public in 2008.

The jury foreman in the longest-running criminal trial in the history of the State has told the court that they have reached verdicts on two of the counts.

The State is due to receive a €275m payout from the liquidation of the IBRC by the end of the year.

The jury in a conspiracy to defraud trial has been told to suspend its deliberations until Monday - because a juror has been hospitalised.

The jury in the trial of four former bank executives accused of conspiring to defraud has gone home for a second evening without reaching any verdicts.

Judge Martin Nolan has told the jury that four former bankers accused of conspiracy to defraud in 2008 are entitled to a fair hearing and that the trial is no place for prejudice.

Counsel for a former executive of Anglo Irish Bank claims the prosecution has not proven he had any criminal intent in an alleged conspiracy to defraud.

A jury has been asked to carefully scrutinise the states of mind of two former Irish Life & Permanent bankers accused of conspiring to defraud.

The former CEO of Anglo Irish Bank, David Drumm, asked about “bloating” the bank's balance sheet with short term inter-bank loans in 2008, a court has heard.

Anglo Irish Bank engaged in a €7.2bn back to back deal to boost their balance sheet for the year ending September 2008 because it was such a bad month for the bank, a court has heard.

A trial date has been set for a former Anglo Irish Bank official after the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction for conspiring to conceal or alter bank accounts being sought by Revenue.

A senior accountant for Anglo Irish Bank has told the trial of four former senior bankers that it wasn't a good moment for him when the bank's auditors contacted him in 2009 about the accounting treatment of a billion-euro deal.

Circuit Court judge Patrick McCartan has agreed to recuse himself from Sean FitzPatrick's trial on charges of misleading auditors of Anglo Irish Bank.

David Drumm is due to make his first appearance before Dublin Circuit Criminal Court this morning after being sent forward for trial.

The Supreme Court has reserved judgement in Joan Collins’ appeal over the High Court’s rejection of her challenge to the €31bn promissory notes.

Staff in the Finance department of Anglo Irish Bank were “very annoyed” when they learned how Irish Life and Permanent (ILP) was treating an allegedly circular billion euro transaction, a trial has heard.