The trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick can go ahead in October.

Lawyers for Mr FitzPatrick said he had suffered from negative publicity during the trial of three former Anglo officials last week.

Judge Martin Nolan said that Mr Fitzpatrick already had a negative reputation.

Last Friday, counsel for Mr FitzPatrick argued to postpone his trial as a 'cascade of sludge' had been visited on his head during the trial of three former Anglo officials.

The three former Anglo officials were sentenced last week for trying to defraud Revenue - making them the first bankers to be imprisoned in Ireland since the onset of the financial crisis.

This morning in Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Martin Nolan said that Mr FitzPatrick had been the subject of criticism, ridicule and odium since 2008.

He said that there would be many heroes and villains made between now and October in the fields of sport and politics.

Judge Nolan said he believed that Mr FitzPatrick could get a fair trial, and that as a result the trial shall go ahead on October 5th.

Mr Fitzpatrick has pleaded not guilty to 27 offences under the 1990 Companies Act.