Fingleton’s journey on the financial gravy train hasn’t ended just yet

Fingleton’s pay package for 2008 totalled *2.34m. This was higher than his 2007 pay of *2.31m. He took the money although he must have known at that stage that the society’s profits for the year were collapsing and that the risks that much of the loans he had sanctioned will not be repaid.

TWO Fridays ago I was going home on the LUAS — as I do every evening after work — when I noticed Michael Fingleton, chief executive of Irish Nationwide Building Society, get on at the Charlemont Street stop just beside the society’s headquarters.

Not having seen him board the train any time previously I wondered if perhaps a bit of long overdue belt-tightening was going on for Ireland’s best paid banker.