40 minutes with Seanie FitzPatrick

[Utopian Hermit Monk]

One to One (RTE)
broadcast December 17, 2007

RTÉ News: One to One

Seanie explains why Anglo-Irish was such a brilliant bank, why he always preferred to employ guys who had been bottom of the class at school (Seanie himself got a single Honour in his Leaving Cert), and why he liked people to think that the money they were loaning was their own, because then they would be more determined to get it back! Oh, and he also thanks God for being so lucky!

Fascinating to watch it now, in a grotesque kind of way.



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[Jock_the_Waster]

lmao

the ad that you have to watch before you can see the video is for the movie

The invention of Lying !

classic

[conservative green]

Well, f*** me gently with a chainsaw, Seanie. Maybe you should have employed a few swotty nerds to balance it out, you prize tool.

[jc_ie]

40 mins?

Give me 5 mins and a crowbar alone with him....

[Utopian Hermit Monk]

Well, Seanie needs at least 40 minutes, because he has lots to say.

He explains, for example, how corruption was not endemic. "There were a few bad apples", and people like Seanie may have made the mistake of occasionally turning a blind eye. But nothing to worry about.

Credit crunch? No, nothing to worry about there either. Everything would be just dandy again within a few months.

Greed? Perish the thought! "It's not about making money, Aine [Lawlor]; it's a game."

And finally, Seanie's kids are wonderful because "they know values".

He could have gone on and on and on.

Watching this just 21 months later, knowing what we now know about Seanie's hidden loans, etc. (not to speak of Anglo Irish helping to bring the entire country to its knees), Seanie's performance in this interview is breathtaking. It's the stuff Oscars are made of.


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[conservative green]

Boasting about firing people that didn't live and breathe the bank's ethos and boasting about asking staff to keep tabs on other staff, as though it was admirable. Openly putting forward workplace bullying as something admirable, to be respected.

Slagging off the boring, intellectual, educated, quiet guys for not being aggressive and loudmouthed enough.


Seanie, you dirty sleveen bullying fraudulent criminal bollix, I take pride in the fact that I made money out of shorting your crap bank.

[theghost]

Well, Seanie needs at least 40 minutes, because he has lots to say.

He explains, for example, how corruption was not endemic. "There were a few bad apples", and people like Seanie may have made the mistake of occasionally turning a blind eye. But nothing to worry about.

Credit crunch? No, nothing to worry about there either. Everything would be just dandy again within a few months.

Greed? Perish the thought! "It's not about making money, Aine [Lawlor]; it's a game."

And finally, Seanie's kids are wonderful because "they know values".

He could have gone on and on and on.

Watching this just 21 months later, knowing what we now know about Seanie's hidden loans, etc. (not to speak of Anglo Irish helping to bring the entire country to its knees), Seanie's performance in this interview is breathtaking. It's the stuff Oscars are made of.


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I'd say they know Seanie's values all right - but I wouldn't want my kids to know said values