The sentence hearing of three former bankers who conspired to mislead the public about Anglo Irish Bank is due to get underway today.

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.

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

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.

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.