The governor of the Central Bank has said he agrees with a judge’s withering attack on the former financial regulator over a loans-for-shares scam at Anglo Irish Bank.

A solicitor hired by Anglo Irish Bank has said he never gave any legal advice in relation to the 2008 loans to the Maple Ten borrowers.

The former chairman of the defunct Anglo Irish Bank has been cleared of all fraud charges over a loans-for-shares scheme months before the bank collapsed in January 2009.

The jury in a fraud trial of three Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme has been told it can return majority verdicts.

The jury in a fraud trial of three Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme have not reached a verdict after two full day’s deliberation.

The jury in a fraud trial of three Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme has resumed deliberations.

The jury in a fraud trial of three Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme have been told to leave behind prejudices about the defunct lender and bankers when deliberating.

The jury in a fraud trial of three banking executives for a €625m loans-for-shares deal at the defunct Anglo Irish Bank have been told to leave behind prejudices about the lender when deliberating.

The jury in the fraud trial of three former bank executives over a €625m loans-for-shares deal in the defunct Anglo Irish Bank has been told Ireland’s banking collapse is not on trial.

A lending manager at the former Anglo Irish Bank has been today telling a court about her concerns about the debts built up by the Quinn Group in 2007.

A building developer who was one of the so-called Maple 10 lenders has told the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives that the bank approached him and said an opportunity had come up.

Maple 10 developer Gerry Gannon has told the Anglo trial that he always found people who worked at the bank to be "honest and truthful".

A Maple 10 investor has said he was on holiday in France when approached by two Anglo Irish Bank executives trying stop a run on the bank's shares.

A major trial? Absolutely.

The high-profile trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives including the bank’s former chairman, Seán FitzPatrick, will open at the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

Civilisation may not have ended yesterday, in accordance with Mayan prophecies, but Seán FitzPatrick’s world took on a decidedly darker shade after he made another appearance before the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin.

Ex-Anglo chairman Seán FitzPatrick and two former colleagues have been sent forward for trial for providing “unlawful financial assistance” to 16 individuals.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive and chairman Seán FitzPatrick could be facing further criminal prosecutions in addition to the 16 charges he was handed down before the Dublin District Court yesterday.

THE most complex set of criminal investigations in the history of the State are reaching crunch time.

The “Maple 10” were the most talked about secret club in Ireland.

One of the top bankers in the former rogue lender Anglo Irish Bank has been charged in Ireland with a string of fraud offences.

Files on suspected wrongdoing at Anglo Irish Bank are to be received by the DPP later today.

THE two Brians need to wake up fast. Recent news emerging about Anglo Irish Bank is analogous to the BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico.

THE controversies over directors’ loans, the allegations of share price manipulation and the window-dressing of deposits at Anglo Irish Bank have created the international perception that Ireland is a dodgy place to do business.

DESPITE attempts to sanitise and whitewash the full horrors of Anglo Irish Bank in the annual report, the truth is being exposed. This is the worst financial scandal in the history of our State. It is now time to compare and contrast this sorry saga with the worst financial scandal in the USA — Enron Corporation.