Painting by numbers: The cost and the pain of Anglo turbulence

The devastation wreaked on boom-to-bust Ireland by the collapse of Anglo was barely touched on in the landmark fraud trial.

Banker-bashing would not be tolerated, nor would personal vendettas over the life-changing bank rescues which the country has yet to recover from.

But the case did provide a chance to paint by numbers the picture of life in the lender’s turbulent final months and the punt by business tycoon Seán Quinn, who now admits: “I was a fool.”