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Thursday 8 June 2023 Dublin: 12°C
# Anglo Irish
Anglo Irish Bank: Our D.I.V.O.R.C.E. is coming through today
Iconic sign removed from front of toxic bank’s Dublin HQ a day after the Nyberg Report on the Irish banking collapse.

THREE LITTLE WORDS can pack a lot of power.

Three words in particular – Anglo Irish Bank – were in the spotlight today as they were removed from outside the toxic bank’s St Stephen’s Green HQ.

Onlookers, bemused tourists and a pack of photographers and TV cameras witnessed the removal of possibly the most-hated moniker in recent Irish history. Several vehicles honked their horns in approval in the post-lunchtime traffic round the Green – including the driver of a cash-in-transit van.

Will the removal of the name from the Anglo Irish facade right the wrongs of the Irish financial collapse? No.

Was it cathartic? Probably.

GOING…


…GOING…


…GOING…


…GOING…


…GOING…


…GONE

- Pics Susan Daly/TheJournal.ie

MEANWHILE… Back at the bat cave:

- Pic thanks to Simon O’Grady (@simonog)

AND… Here’s one they swiped earlier:

- Current Anglo Group CEO Mike Aynsley takes away the Anglo icon to be binned.

(Pic: Eamonn Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

Anglo Irish Bank: In the shredder>

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