<p>Michael Fingleton was an Irish banking legend, the ultimate big money lender. He took Irish Nationwide Building Society from an obscure mortgage provider to a multi-billion euro property-lending casino, leaving the taxpayer to pick up the tab for ?5.4 billion when the society eventually went bust.<br>Fingleton earned over ?2 million per year and built up a pension fund worth ?27 million. But it was his loans to a small group of property develo...