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...choice of the wealthy builders and developers who reaped the rewards of Ireland's colossal property boom during the "Celtic Tiger" era of the 1990s. They also tend to support Fianna Fail, the party at the head of Ireland's coalition governments for the past 12 years. Following the FitzPatrick loan scandal, it emerged that 10 Anglo Irish customers, since dubbed the "golden circle" by the Irish media, were lent more than $560 million to buy shares in the bank - a deal that may have broken laws on market abuse. To date, only a fifth of this loan has been...
...Ireland's downturn has also laid bare some ugly home truths - scandals indicative of a boom-years culture of nepotism and scant regulation that some say is as much to blame for the nation's economic malaise as the global downturn. In December, it emerged that Sean FitzPatrick, the then chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, Ireland's third largest bank, had concealed from shareholders more than $100 million in personal loans by transferring them temporarily to a building society. After FitzPatrick quit, the Irish government stepped in to nationalize Anglo Irish, but the damage to public confidence had already been...
...blogs that don’t have to do with the course I’m teaching,” Burt said. “I don’t tell students to read my personal blog, I want them to read more Wordsworth.” Molly O. Fitzpatrick ’11, who is currently enrolled in English 10b, agrees with Burt. “I don’t think sharing one’s personal life is necessary,” she said. “But I think it’d be interesting...
...from agents and writers to Robert M. Kraft ’76, the chief executive of Fox Music. “We were bussed around from studio to studio, panel to panel in order to experience a broad cross-section of Hollywood,” said Molly O. Fitzpatrick ’11. As they learned about the ins and outs of Hollywood (“Screaming bosses are a big thing out there,” said Fitzpatrick), students also tried their hand at networking. “The whole trip is about meeting people, specifically Harvard alums...
...Pauline Fitzpatrick also lost a brother in 1977. He was a member of the IRA in Belfast, one of many poor teenagers who joined paramilitary groups at the height of the Troubles. Fitzpatrick's parents were unaware her brother had joined the IRA until he was killed by the British army. Today, Fitzpatrick is a family support worker who counsels mostly Catholic families whose relatives were killed by the police or by British security forces. "Obviously money doesn't solve all these people's problems", says Fitzpatrick after the public meeting. "But it's an important recognition that they have...