Comments on: Rival Bank Helps Anglo-Irish Chairman To Hide Huge Personal Debts

By: Tommy

Tommy — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:52:53 +0000

I believe the regulator costs â‚¬42M a year to run. It is the plaything of the banks, and a waste of money. It's not capable of regulating a flashlight in a henhouse. What a farce! They should all go home and we could better spend â‚¬42M on essential services instead. A change of gevernment would just put another policical apointee in place and the game would go on! The solution to this requires more than an election – it requires a woule new way of doing things in this country. While we're at it, the Competition Authority might go the same way. Another waste of money.

By: Silverfox

Silverfox — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:58:27 +0000

Sean Fitzpatrick is one of Cowen's closest buddies – along with developer Sean Mulryan. Sean Quinn is a big FF backer as well as an Anglo investor. Some guy from Trinity said it yesterday and the logic is simple .."Anglo Irish funds developers, and developers fund FF". The sad fact is we are run by an unscrupulous greedy mafia who have now fucked completely an entire generation. An educated generation with no work at home, and nowhere to emigrate. This crisis will make the eighties seem like the halcyon days. I'll back OrganDonor's firing squad. That should provide a few days employment for some handy marksmen.

By: Nora

Nora — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:03:01 +0000

I voted for an independent once and he brought down the Gov't. Enough people gave him first preference votes, even if they voted party next. If enough people voted non-party it could upset the apple cart considerably.

I don't see any real change happening here unless FF and FG are deprived of the reins.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:45:05 +0000

Bock, in further reference to BJJs post about the loan being a joint one with Lar Bradshaw. Check out another joint transaction Fitzpatrick had with Bradshaw.
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/bank-chiefs-facing-share-deals-probe-1488613.html

By Ailish O'Hora Business News Editor

Friday October 03 2008

"The Irish Stock Exchange is investigating a number of share dealings in Anglo Irish Bank, including those by the bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick and fellow director Lar Bradshaw, in the run-up to the Government's decision to introduce its â‚¬400bn bailout package.

The shares were bought over a week ago, after talks had opened between banks, the Financial Regulator, the Government and the Central Bank about the state of the banking system, but before the bailout was agreed.

The transactions earned Mr Fitzpatrick a paper profit of â‚¬326,000 and Mr Bradshaw a paper profit of â‚¬79,000."

Words fail me, but the courtyard and blindfold option looks better by the minute.

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:08:34 +0000

The Law — This is me acknowledging your comment to stop you bending my ear at every opportunity about being ignored.

Now, as to the substance of your comment: bollocks!

Most people — Thank you for your comments. Keep cursing those bank bastards. I can't be bothered replying individually today because I'm going for a pint and I haven't time to reply …

… except to Nora –

No point voting for a candidate in our party system, since they have no freedom of independent thought anyway. As Charlie McCreevy once complained, he might as well send his shoes to the DÃ¡il.

By: Nora

Nora — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:39:28 +0000

I think I can say with absolute certainty that I've never voted FF in my life. I often vote for a candidate, not a party. It's people following a party (for life), as if it was a football team, that has this country the way it is.

By: Conan Drumm

Conan Drumm — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:59:41 +0000

Vote swp in the local elections. Vote independent in the European elections. Vote for anyone other than FF/Green/PD.

By: OrganDonor

OrganDonor — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 12:14:11 +0000

My suggestion is quite simple and cost effective..
It involves a courtyard ,some blindfolds and a firing squad.
Might seem a bit harsh but hey,im not in a cuddly forgiving mood today
If Anglo Irish bank and Irish Nationwide were at this then the lot of them were up to similar dodgy stuff..
We're gonna need more bullets..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:56:53 +0000

Cunts, stunning cunts, every one of them.

We'll be the next Iceland and those fuckers Libertas and the Murdoch Press will love every minute of it as soon as our celtic cub/mad katlik fundamentalists copperfasten this country s doom by having the Sire Ganley/Sinn few-in/ Dana + Justin the turkeys vote for christmas as their British masters tell them.

And we're left with the most pathetic shower of politicians imaginabe who, even at ths remove, still trust these fucking bankers ???? All of the same brood the lot of them.

By: BJJ

BJJ — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:27:12 +0000

Irish Indo has stated
"Sean Fitzpatrick transfered some of his loans from Ango Irish Bank to Irish Nationwide. He would then transfer the loans back to Anglo at a later date".

Can somebody with a banking background educate me as to how you "transfer" a loan from one institution to another?