The prosecution of Sean Fitzpatrick bore many elements of a stitch-up, writes Michael Clifford. 

The State utterly failed to protect the taxpayer from the dangers of white-collar crime all the way along, so to Enda Kenny and Micheál Martin, please spare us your outrage and your anger, suggests Daniel McConnell.

IT IS a fundamental rule of law that everyone — from prince to pauper — is entitled to the presumption of innocence and to a fair trial, no matter what criminal charges they face. 

Potential conflicts of interest and incompetencies evident in the prosecution of Sean FitzPatrick speak volumes about our attitudes to white-collar crime, writes Michael Clifford.

It is important that we commit to law reform and allocate resources to ensure effective investigation and prosecution, says Shane Kilcommins.

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.

It is seeking from transcripts of the trial as it says it was excluded from much of the proceedings.

There is no need for cross examination of the official overseeing developer Sean Dunne's bankruptcy.

It follows yesterday’s decision by Judge John Aylmer to direct the jury to acquit.

The Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement (ODCE) has said it fully accepts a judge's criticism of its investigation into the former chairman of Anglo Irish Bank after he was acquitted of misleading auditors.

A judge has ordered that former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick be found not guilty of hiding millions of euro in loans from auditors.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman, Sean FitzPatrick has said his prosecution for allegedly misleading the bank's auditors about millions of euro in loans was a difficult time for him and his family.

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.

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.

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

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick will go on trial next May on charges of breaching the Companies Act.

Seán FitzPatrick's High Court application to have his criminal trial delayed has been successful - it will now go ahead in May 25, 2016 instead of October.

A judge has ruled that the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick can go ahead in October.

Further delays have hit the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank Chairman Sean FitzPatrick.