Ex-Anglo chief executive David Drumm has claimed his bank did not lend recklessly, was always open to regulation and that financial institutions have been unfairly blamed for the crash.

GOLF swings, gulf-streams, and gold-plated pension schemes have all done their bit to demean the office of Taoiseach.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn are the “only innocent victims” in a case being brought over their alleged liability for €2.34bn in loans issued by the former Anglo Irish Bank, counsel for the Quinns told the Supreme Court yesterday.

A judge will rule later this month on whether the State must reimburse all or some of the legal costs of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick arising from his recent criminal trial.

Two former directors of Anglo Irish Bank, the rogue lender that crippled Ireland’s economy, have been found guilty of hatching a multi-million euro loans-for-shares plot months before the bank’s collapse.

The trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives has heard there was “a hotline” between the bank and the Financial Regulator about the allegedly illegal Maple Ten deal.

The Financial Regulator wanted to keep “plausible deniability” of its knowledge of a plan by Anglo Irish Bank to unwind Sean Quinn’s control of their shares, a court has heard.

The former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank raised the possibility of there being a “legal issue” surrounding the bank lending money to buy its own shares, four months before the allegedly illegal Maple Ten deal.

The jury in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives was today shown a letter from which stated the Financial Regulator had not given its approval for the Maple Ten deal.

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.

Seán Quinn has said he suspected Anglo “were doing a sweetheart deal” when it forced him to sell his stake in the bank.

Ireland’s one-time richest man Sean Quinn suspected the now-defunct Anglo Irish Bank made a sweetheart deal to unwind his secret shareholding in the lender, a court has been told.

The trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank directors has heard that the Financial Regulator fully supported the bank’s allegedly illegal plan to protect their share price.

A second former executive at Anglo Irish Bank is to stand trial on revenue charges.

The trial of Thomas Byrne has heard Anglo Irish Bank relied on the former solicitor to provide proof he was using valid properties as collateral on €4.6m in loans.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has denied misleading the Dáil over the extent and depth of his dealings with Anglo executives during the banking collapse.

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.

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.

Taped phone calls from inside the walls of the bust Anglo Irish Bank have so far revealed the attitudes of just three key players.

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

There was a familiar face in court that day.

A liquidator has been appointed to the former holding company behind Seán Quinn’s global business empire.

A daughter of Seán Quinn has said if her family could rectify its finances and free her brother from prison, they would do it immediately.

Despite his nephew being in prison and his own son being a fugitive from justice here, Peter Quinn has said the next generation of his family will “be back in business and will succeed”.

Former president of the GAA Peter Quinn Sr has claimed his fugitive son Peter Darragh Quinn twice tried to purge his contempt of court but the former Anglo Irish Bank would not accept it.

If you had arrived direct from Mars, a radio interview yesterday with Sean Quinn Sr and his daughter Colette-Marie would have melted your heart, says Michael Clifford

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

Seán Quinn is expected to mount a Supreme Court challenge early next week to overturn yesterday’s High Court ruling, which saw his son and nephew jailed for three months for contempt.

The grip on the empire controlled by the man who was once Ireland’s richest individual has been prised a further notch open following one of the most dramatic days in the recent history of the Four Courts.

The High Court has found bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn, his son and nephew to be guilty of contempt of court orders restraining him and his family from moving international assets.

Sean Quinn has again attacked Anglo Irish Bank in the High Court, claiming that in its takeover it removed all the top executives from the Quinn group because "dead men can't talk".

Bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn told the High Court Anglo Irish Bank had tried to ruin him forever, bullied him out of office and made him “a criminal in Irish society”.

Bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn is in the Commercial Court today fighting for what his lawyers say is his constitutional right to be represented in proceedings by his family against Anglo Irish Bank.

Bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn yesterday told the High Court he was “a simple farmer’s son”.

BUSINESSMAN Sean Quinn has been declared bankrupt in the High Court after he decided not to contest an application made by the former Anglo Irish Bank.

The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, formerly Anglo Irish bank, has responded to claims by Sean Quinn that it has a "personal vendetta" against him and his family.

Sean Quinn, once Ireland’s richest man, today admitted his business career was over after being declared bankrupt in the High Court.

BANKRUPT business tycoon Seán Quinn has been ordered to repay €1.7bn in debts to the former Anglo Irish Bank following court action he described last night as “pointless, self-serving and vindictive”.

SEAN QUINN, once Ireland’s richest man, has declared himself bankrupt in a Belfast court over nearly €3 billion of debts to the former Anglo Irish Bank.

A FEW years ago Sean Quinn was Ireland’s richest man and Anglo Irish Bank its most envied financial institution. Today, Quinn is bankrupt and Anglo is a ghost bank awaiting burial.

Sean Quinn, once Ireland’s richest man, has declared himself bankrupt in a Belfast court over debts of €2bn to the former Anglo Irish Bank, the former tycoon has confirmed.

Sean Quinn has applied for bankruptcy in the High Court in Belfast this morning.

TAOISEACH Enda Kenny should personally intervene to prevent the repayment of a $1 billion (€715m) Anglo-Irish Bank bond tomorrow, Fianna Fáil finance spokesman Michael McGrath has said.