Seán FitzPatrick's criminal trial has been deferred until May 2016.
Judge Moriarty made his ruling on an application by Mr Fitzpatrick to the High Court this afternoon and said the case didn't have to go ahead this October.
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The 66 year old former Anglo Irish Bank chairman, with an address at Whitshed road in Greystones, faces 27 charges, including making a misleading, false or deceptive statement to auditors and of furnishing false information from 2002 to 2007.
He has pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
