Thanks for examining Anglo fiasco

The Irish Examiner does the nation some truly decent service. Your editorial and comment columns (John Walsh and& Michael Clifford inter-alia) give something of a wholesome and measured comprehension to the incomprehensible.

Telling the inside track about core truths, especially those with profound relevance to the well-being of the nation, is vital for any holistic assessment of the Anglo trial, its emergent adjudications and the pervasive catastrophe the whole episode has wrought on this state and far-off shores.

Parsing and assessing the legal minutiae may well indeed have been an adroit accomplishment of the selected jury, and more power to them for exercising their citizen’s informed integrity at the highest level. For the average Jack or Jill though, it still reeks odiously of incomplete business in terms of delivering full and proportionate justice, even before any sentencing details are presented.

The gush and rush of greed and gorge appear so pathetically vacuous and unworthy at this remove, after so much painful re-adjustment for so many, and with much more unpalatable elixir still to swallow. The medicine is tough to take for the ordinary folk, while the ‘big-boys’, (at least some of them) get away scot-free.

Seanie Fitzpatrick has hardly been exculpated in the full, by way of any modicum of public justice perception. His own personal, frenetically self-aggrandising drive to succeed, with such brazen disregard for prudence, decency or moral is the poorest example of citizenship going. “His single-minded determination to grow Anglo to become a peer of AIB and Bank of Ireland set in motion a train of events that caused the banking system to collapse,” so reckons John Walsh. How right he is.

The dark, despotic and devious sides of ‘ultra-usury’, competitive finance marketeering and global ‘gain-greed’, all coupled with pygmy-portions of authentic transparency and absence of generosity of collective spirit are patently shown to be corrupt and cancerous for all and sundry.

Of course when the political ‘masters’ and the appointed ‘regulators’ rowed in for the pseudo-bonanza, all decorum is lost. Their blind-eye approach ensured it all galloped ingloriously over the cliff.

Mé-féinism or what?

Jim Cosgrove

Lismore

Co Waterford