Always a quip in his back pocket

He said that he picked the infamous sum Anglo needed on guarantee night “out of me arse”, later leaving for the US and telling a reporter who tracked him down to “have a bit of respect”.

But despite his attempts to quietly vanish into history, the shadow of David Drumm still hangs over Ireland — some seven years after the financial crisis.

After the September 2008 bank guarantee brought Anglo’s problems into sharp focus, Mr Drumm resigned as CEO in December 2008 and fled to the US, with one person who saw his former Malahide home in north Dublin saying he “even took the light bulbs”.