The Fitzpatrick Tapes

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One day in May 2009, Sean FitzPatrick, the disgraced former chief executive and chairman of Anglo Irish Bank – sat down to lunch in a Holiday Inn in Dublin. Across the table sat Tom Lyons, a business reporter with The Sunday Times. Seven months later, the two met for the first of what would be seventeen formal, tape-recorded interviews over the course of 2010: a year when Ireland, its public finances ruined in large part by the cost of covering Anglo’s losses, went bust itself. In these interviews, Fitzpatrick talked at length and in detail about his banking experiences and philosophy, his colleagues and clients, his investments, his public disgrace, his arrest and his bankruptcy.