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Domhnall bound for galaxy far, far away
TWO high-ranking executives convicted in by Ed CARty the Anglo Irish Bank fraud trial were spared guided attempt to save their bank but nonejail and walked free from court yesterday. Pat Whelan and Willie McAteer were told theless it was a breach of law,’ he said. ‘It would be unjust to imprison these two by Judge Martin Nolan that it would be unjust to imprison them over the July 2008 il- gentlemen when it seems to me a state agenlegal loans-for-shares scam at the now-de- cy has led them into illegality,’ he added. Whelan, 52, of Malahide, and McAteer, funct bank. But former financial watchdog Patrick 63, of Rathgar, declined to comment after Neary was singled out by the judge for damn- they were told they will be assessed for ing criticism for leading the two bankers into community service. Both men showed little emotion when the the rogue €450million deal to unravel a secret stock trade that regulators feared threatened judge gave his 18-minute ruling. It included a damning assessment of the Ireland’s entire bank system. Judge Nolan said they were guilty of a bla- regulator’s failure to stop the deal to unravel tant crime but acted with the knowledge of a doomed €2.4billion gamble on Anglo’s the watchdog – headed at the time by Neary, shares – 28 per cent of its total stock – by former billionaire who gave evidence Sean Quinn. at the trial – which Judge Nolan failed to throw up warned: ‘I find it any red warning incredible red lights or simply lights did not go chose to ignore iloff some place in legal lending. the regulator’s ofHe said Whelan fice and the approand McAteer had priate legal advice no venal motive of was not sought.’ ‘avarice or greed’. ‘It was a mis- Spared: Anglo executives Whelan and McAteer
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Domhnall Gleeson will be in the new Star Wars film, it emerged yesterday, as the new cast announcement crashed the film’s official website. Girls
star Adam Driver, Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac and The Exorcist’s Max von Sydow also join the latest incarnation of the space epic. Other new stars include John Boyega, Daisy Ridley and Frank star Gleeson, the son of Irish acting legend Brendan. They join returning Star Wars veterans Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Peter Mayhew is back as Chewbacca and Kenny Baker will reprise RD-D2. The film, due out in December 2015, will begin shooting in May, with Star Trek director JJ Abrams at the helm. Disney chief executive Bob Iger said it will be set 30 years after 1983’s Return of the Jedi
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