Fingers – The Man who Brought Down Irish Nationwide and Cost Us €5.4bn
In 2010, Irish Nationwide Building Society required a €5.4 billion state bailout and recently was liquidated as part of IBRC but every cent of that money must still be repaid. Michael Fingleton or ‘Fingers’, as he was widely known, survived for decades as a rogue banker in charge of the toxic building society which went to the heart of the Celtic Tiger. The implosion of Irish Nationwide was not an isolated incident but Irish Nationwide was unique. This was a building society dominated by one man for more than 37 years. Its mistakes were his mistakes and its failings, his ...
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