I blogged back in early April about the fact that Pat Whelan and William McAteer (having been found guilty of giving illegal loans when Directors of Anglo Irish Bank.
I mentioned that they were to be sentenced at the end of that month. And that the possible sentence included "up to five years in prison and/or a fine of up to €30,000 per offence".
Well, in the end, Judge Martin Nolan sentenced both men to 240 hours community service.
To be kind about it, that seems a little anticlimactic. Going from the release of the tapes, to the trial, to the sentencing.
I think that is why there is a delay between the verdict of a trial and the sentencing:so that media and public interest will have dissipated before the sentence is announced.
So it continues to be the case that nobody has gone to gaol for the crimes committed by Anglo Irish Bank.