A former Anglo Irish Bank executive said he planned to “get a bit of drink” into a Credit Suisse banker at an upcoming dinner and say to him: “I'd like about five billion before the 30th”.

Drumm also said he intended to go to “that fucking shower of clowns down in Dame Street,” to look for emergency funding for the bank, his trial has heard.

The jury in the trial of David Drumm has heard that Anglo Irish Bank's audit committee was an independent watchdog tasked with overseeing management's activities.

A new jury will be empanelled this afternoon in the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank Chief Executive David Drumm due to an issue that had arisen.

David Drumm, the former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, has pleaded not guilty to being involved in an alleged €7.2bn conspiracy to defraud and to dishonestly providing false information to the market.

The former director of lending with Anglo Irish Bank, Pat Whelan, has been fined €3,000 for failing to keep a proper record of a fraudulent €8m to his colleague William McAteer.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

The trial of two ex-Anglo executives over an alleged fraudulent loan of over €8m will start in 2017.

The trial date has been set for two former Anglo executives over an alleged fraudulent loan of over €8m.

The State requires an enlarged jury panel to deal with the case of former Anglo Irish Bank executive William McAteer and three co-accused, the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard this morning.

One of the two Anglo executives sentenced to community service is expected to work with homeless people.

At 10.30am yesterday, two citizens were sentenced for doing something, a judge said, they believed was lawful.

Over the last few years calls for public sector reform have almost become a mantra; an invoaction that if undertaken — we imagine — might cure all of our ills.

Former Anglo Irish Bank executive William McAteer and three co-accused will stand trial in 2016 on charges of conspiring to mislead the bank’s investors about the true value of the its deposit books.

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.

The State is challenging the application of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick to be granted the "enormous" legal costs he incurred during his recent criminal trial.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick is to apply to the State to pay his legal fees from his recent criminal trial.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick is to apply for the State to pay his legal fees from his recent criminal trial.

It will be another three months before the Anglo trial is concluded when Judge Martin Nolan finalises sentences for the two convicted bankers, William McAteer and Pat Whelan, but there are many other loose ends to tie up even then. Here’s a brief look at what lies ahead for the defendants and some of other key players in the Anglo debacle.

A judge has ruled that it would be “incredibly unjust” to send two Anglo banking executives to jail as they were led into “error and illegality” by a state agency, the country’s financial watchdog.

Two former directors of Anglo Irish Bank will not be jailed following their conviction for engaging in an illegal share support scheme.

Judge Martin Nolan’s remarks, that it would be unjust to jail former Anglo Irish bank executives William McAteer and Pat Whelan given “a State agency had led them into error and illegality” confirm the impression that this was something of a show trial.

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 sentence hearing of the two former Anglo Irish Bank directors convicted of providing illegal loans to 10 individuals is due to open at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today before Judge Martin Nolan.

The three leading defence counsel in the Anglo trial shared over €1m (including Vat) in State fees for their work in the criminal courts.

It looks like the Anglo trial is all over bar the sentencing but, in reality, the saga has a long way to go before it has exhausted public interest and ceased to be in the public interest.

THE impact the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank has had on the country has been complex but the criminal trial that emerged from it was strangely simple.

The first two people to be convicted of crimes related to the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank are likely to receive softer sentences because of the role the financial regulator’s office played in their activity.

Deep-seated fears in the public mind, verging almost on suspicion, that bankers would ‘get away with it’ after being directly involved in the kind of financial crisis which brought this country to its knees, have finally been dispelled.

The sentence hearing of former Anglo Irish Bank directors Pat Whelan and William McAteer will take place on April 28 following their conviction on charges of providing illegal lending to the Maple Ten for a share support scheme.

Can you imagine the outcry if charges had been preferred against Anglo executives but not Seánie?

Former Anglo Irish Bank directors Pat Whelan and William McAteer have been convicted of providing illegal lending to the Maple Ten for a share support scheme.

The jury in a fraud trial of two Anglo Irish Bank directors over a multimillion loans-for-shares scheme has begun a fourth day of deliberation.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick has been acquitted on all counts of permitting illegal lending for the purchase of Anglo shares.

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 have not reached a verdict after their first full day of deliberations.

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

The jury has begun deliberations in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives accused of illegally lending money for the purchase of shares in the bank.

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 members in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives accused has been told they are not there to “satisfy the baying for blood of the mob”.