Seán FitzPatrick’s fall from grace was huge and its toll immense

Seán FitzPatrick with his daughter Sarah in 2017, after he was acquitted of misleading bank auditors. Picture by Damien Eagers

Richard Curran

I remember back in 2009 talking to someone who knew Seán FitzPatrick very well. He summed up the predicament the former Anglo Irish Bank chairman found himself in.

“The problem for Seán was that everything went at the same time – his directorships, his income, his investments, his wealth, the bank – the poor guy,” he said.