ODCE head says the 'wheels came off' in a 'catastrophic way' during Sean FitzPatrick trial

Ireland's white collar crime investigator has warned he would still be unable to cope with a financial scandal on the same scale as the 2008 Anglo Irish crisis if it happened tomorrow.

The Director of the Office of Corporate Enforcement repeatedly warned of the situation a decade after the crash and just weeks out from Brexit-hit UK companies transferring hundreds of millions of funds into this country.