State challenges Fitzpatrick application for 'enormous' costs

The State is challenging the application of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean Fitzpatrick to be granted the "enormous" legal costs he incurred during his recent criminal trial.

Mr Fitzpatrick was acquitted last March of engaging in an illegal share support scheme. His fellow Anglo directors Pat Whelan and William McAteer were convicted on 10 counts of providing illegal loans to the group of investors known as the Maple Ten to prop up the Anglo share price.