‘Weak case’ against two ex-Anglo officials

The State’s case against two former Anglo Irish Bank officials, jailed for conspiring to conceal or alter bank accounts being sought by the Revenue, was astonishingly weak, the Court of Appeal has been told.

Tiarnan O’Mahoney, aged 56, of Glen Pines, Enniskerry, Co Wicklow, and Bernard Daly, aged 67, of Collins Avenue, Whitehall, Dublin, had denied knowingly furnishing false information and conspiring to defraud the Revenue as well as conspiring to have accounts deleted from the bank’s internal system.

After they were found guilty by a jury at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Patrick McCartan jailed O’Mahoney for three years and Daly for two years on July 31, 2015.