FitzPatrick arrested - An opening step in very slow process

IT is very important not to say or even infer anything that might prejudice the investigation into affairs at Anglo Irish Bank but yesterday’s arrest did not come a moment too soon.

Public confidence in our justice system was in danger of being undermined by snail’s-pace investigations.

The arrest of former Anglo Irish chairman Seán FitzPatrick, who resigned from the bank on December 18, 2008, is very important on so many levels.