Tom Lyons on David Drumm, the banker who fell to earth
For more than a decade, Tom Lyons has tracked the fortunes of former Anglo Irish Bank chief executive David Drumm. From ambitious young banker to bankrupt to his conviction, Drumm is one of the few people to have been held to account for the Irish banking collapse. Now, as he awaits sentencing, Lyons looks back at his tumultuous and ultimately disastrous career path
A malicious phone call
David Drumm sprinted the short distance from one side of his Boston prison yard to the other. Then he went back again. Back and forth he ran until his hour outside his cell ended. A steel net covered the sky above the Dublin-born banker. For well over 100 days, he had been detained in prison since he was seized on October 10, 2015 by marshals who had burst into ...
