Sentences with phrase «irish banking crisis»

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Three senior Irish bankers were jailed on Friday for up to three - and - a-half years for conspiring to defraud investors in the most prominent prosecution arising from the 2008 banking crisis that crippled the country's economy.

Anglo - Irish Bank was merged with Irish Nationwide Building Society to form Irish Bank Resolution Corp after both were nationalised at the height of the banking crisis in Ireland.

Rising from the shell of the stalled riverside headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank, Ireland's financial regulator could be accused of insensitivity for choosing as its new home a site that became a toxic symbol of the banking crisis, but the building is not without virtue: it comfortably surpasses the proposed nearly zero energy building standard while achieving the onerous Breeam «Outstanding» rating for sustainability.

Effectively, to draw an analogy with the problems affecting the Irish economy over the past few years, the crisis with the SMDF has moved from bank guarantee territory to recapitalisation territory.