Bank manager was ‘devastated’ after being fired

Declan Maher said he and his family faced a bleak future after he was dismissed from his near €100,000-a-year job as bank manager of AIB Clifden, Co Galway, in 2011.
His dismissal followed an internal investigation and separate independent probe into a letter he wrote on AIB-headed notepaper, indicating sanction in principle for a $60m (€45m) loan to BMB — a partnership in which he held a 50% share.