Fingers: The Man Who Brought Down Irish Nationwide and Cost Us 5.4bn - Softcover

Lyons, Tom; Curran, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0717155838 ISBN 13: 9780717155835

Publisher: Gill & Macmillan, 2013

Synopsis

Michael Fingleton ran Irish Nationwide Building as his own personal banking fiefdom, taking it from the dizzy heights of success and eventually bringing it down at a cost of 5.4 billion Euro to the Irish taxpayer. One of the architects of the most debilitating financial crisis that Ireland has experienced, he has escaped scrutiny until now. Here the authors reveal an intriguing and complex character. This book will take readers into the world of Michael Fingleton, providing an insight into the personality, career, and power of a man who took a tiny building society from obscurity to profitability and then to ruin. ""[The authors] point the finger at the failure of the society's internal systems and controls, and the overweening dominance of one man.""--Irish Voice, Aug. 13, 2013

About this title

About the Author:

Tom Lyons is a business journalist with the Sunday Times and co-author of The Fitzpatrick Tapes. Tom lives in Dublin. Richard Curran is a former Deputy Editor of the Sunday Business Post and continues to contribute to it as well as being presenter of Dragons' Den. Richard lives in Co Donegal.

Review:

Do yourselves a favour and get a copy. -- John Lee The Mail on Sunday This telling of Michael Fingleton's contribution to the bust is a far superior account of the recent crash than almost all that have gone before it - excepting Simon Carswell's stupendous Anglo Republic'. -- Aoife Kavanagh Sunday Business Post Magazine It places Fingleton where he belongs, near the centre of the financial meltdown. By showing his rise and fall, and the context in which that happened, it also gives us a handy single-volume account of the greed and recklessness of a whole class of bankers, developers and their political enablers. -- Aoife Kavanagh Sunday Business Post Fingers does the important job of providing as much insight as possible into what exactly went on inside one of the institutions that has proved so costly to the Irish taxpayer. -- Gene Kerrigan The Sunday Independent Fingers does the important job of providing as much insight as possible into what exactly went on inside one of the institutions that has proved so costly to the Irish taxpayer. InBusiness Magazine "While for a long time, the major topic of debate was Anglo Irish Bank - the subject of many reports and stories and investigations - Lyons and Curran present a highly insightful and damning first look into the real story behind Ireland's worst bank." , InBusiness Magazine (Chambers Ireland), May 2013 "Lyons and Curran ably lead the reader through the mindfield of details, constructing a detailed, vivid, and often frightening insight into life inside Ireland's worst bank" --Conor Forrest InBusiness Magazine (Chambers Ireland)

[The authors] point the finger at the failure of the society's internal systems and controls, and the overweening dominance of one man. --Irish Voice

About this edition

• Publisher: Gill & Macmillan
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0717155838
• ISBN 13: 9780717155835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328