Lucinda Creighton: State must be properly armed to combat white-collar crime
The death of Seán FitzPatrick serves as a reminder of how the country paid the price for reckless financial behaviour that largely went unpunished due to a lack of resources to tackle it down the years
Between Covid-19, climate change, the housing crisis and many more national policy priorities, it is easy to forget that the financial crash ever happened. The country has moved on, but last week’s death of Seán FitzPatrick, the disgraced former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, serves as a stark reminder that just ten years ago, this country was on its knees due to the reckless behaviour of many senior figures in the banking and finance ...
