From left: Bernard Daly, Tiarnan O’Mahoney and Aoife Maguire
BREAKING: Anglo Three jailed. Bernard Daly receives 2 years Tiarnan O’Mahoney 3 years and Aoife Maguire for 18 months. #anglotrial
— The Herald (@HeraldNewsdesk) July 31, 2015
All sentences are to begin immediately. Judge McCartan said it was clear the accused engaged in a deliberate and ongoing fraud to stop the accounts of their employer, Anglo chairman Sean FitzPatrick, from being disclosed to Revenue.
The judge called Anglo a “very sick bank” which “took a very, very dishonest approach to Revenue.” He said the accused’s actions were “done out of misplaced loyalty but were still dishonest and were against all good banking principle and practices.”
Ex-Anglo officials jailed for between 3 years and 18 months (Paul Cullen, Irish Times)
Meanwhile..
Ahh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh i love it. They will probably never see the inside of a cell but least somebody has finally acknowledged that the banks upped us.
it’s only a token drogg. still, i’m enjoying a wry chuckle to myself.
sentence is custodial w/o portion suspended
Irish Justice makes zero sense.
Jailing non-violent crimes yet there’s people walking around with about 50 previous convictions with no bother.
I disagree, respectfully; there needs to be a consequence for some laws to work. They will be sent to Arbor hill most likely, that place doesn’t house the type of criminal that Paul Williams generally makes a a living from writing about. So they’re not gonna come out worse than they went in, like most violent criminals tend to.
Arbour Hill? Where male sex offenders end up? lol..
Don’t even go there with that silly whataboutery
Why is everyone so down on whataboutery? What about ‘what about’?
you kidding me? . the suffering the bastards at anglo, and others besides, have inflicted on the whole population and the weakest especially is deplorable. longer sentences for more of the hoors
18 months for doing what your boss tells you, yet rape your girlfriend and walk away scot free. strange system
Very odd alright.
Seems easy to jail the lickspittles when the beneficiary doesn’t even get charged.
+1
The Nuremberg Defence- of doing what your boss said- doesn’t cut it, thankfully.
Exactly – part of the point of such deterrents is so that when your boss tells you to do something, you’ll have an incentive to disregard him/her.
Yeah because hiding accounts from revenue and murdering 6 million Jews is the same thing….
It may not be the same thing but it’s the same mindset.
It’s nothing close to the same mindset
Yes it is. ‘But I was only following orders’. Their cowardly actions were self-serving and now they’re paying the price. Enjoy your night in the Joy guys.
It’s a very commonly cited legal concept. People usually manage to comprehend it’s analogous application to other contexts.
Agree with Al…I would much rather bigger more violent & immoral scum be jailed…none of these 3 profited from Anglo’s ridiculous “banking system” the lady is a single mother in a junior office role…yet thieving murdering feral creatures walk around, collecting convictions & suspended sentences.
She was an assistant manager not a bank clerk.
She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
That much is true
She was handling some slippery nipples alright.
You raised an interesting legal question, what would be the appropriate sentence for raping your girlfriend if your boss told you to do it?
I stand corrected. This means a custodial sentence yes?
so do they thing sean fitz didnt know about this? he put thru the orders, why isnt he gettin done? theyre taking a (small) hit for him .. why isnt he bein held accountable too?
His trial is later in the year. This result actually makes things look bad for him and will help bring a case against him.
As far as I know he’s not charged with anything in connection with this case, yet His case relates to directors loans?
No, but there’s a chain of command…. or, responsibility
Chain of command
Why wasn’t Fitzpatrick on trial? These three hardly just decided to delete his accounts by themselves.
My more optimistic self thinks there’s a long game being played here, and that securing these convictions allows them to move one or two steps closer to nabbing Seanie. Of course, experience has taught me that my more optimistic self is a fool :-)
Hold fast M’s Piggy!
Smallfries thrown under a bus as a sop to the masses, while the head honchos play golf – without discussing banking, of course.
Ireland. A dirty little country to do business in.
Small fry? It was the Chief Operating Officer. Basically third in command.
O’Mahoney wasn’t small fry. Was up for CEO job before Drumm got it and allegedly set up a DIBOR scam in Anglo. He deserves every minute of his jail time.
Fitzy’s gone to the courts to get his own trial delayed because this one makes him look bad…
I have not an ounce of sympathy for this trio without a backbone between them. Seanie is going down too, wait and see.
It’s a start, I suppose.
Also their conviction makes a nonsense of some of Drumm’s testimony to the Banking Inquiry.
big up to the judge for not allowing their senior counsel to pull off his stroke about the jury foremans wife being friendly with somebody, lets see if the boys in blue track down whoever supposedly made this call and if not then maybe ask the senior counsel some questions about it.
I love the anger here. Non-violent crime and they didn’t benefit personally. Yet you’ll stay silent about violent criminals walking around with 50+ convictions. Or maybe you’ll make excuses for their behaviour. Typical.
Non-violent crime – ahahahahahahaha
didn’t benefit personally – ahahahahahahahahahaha
You probably think this is ok.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/courts/circuit-court/man-who-broke-skull-in-attack-gets-suspended-sentence-1.2298734
Its completely wrong any women should be sent to jail. Ever.
Ask Ivana Bacik.