Former rugby international Brendan Mullin believed Bank of Ireland’s private banking arm would discharge invoices owing to accountancy firms Beechwood Partners and Grant Thornton as a “gesture of goodwill” to him as a customer, his trial has heard. On day two of the case, defence lawyers for the former managing director of the private banking arm put it to a witness that Mullin understood the bank would “pick up the cost of these relatively small matters”, totalling €11,746.50, as part of a loan application he was pursuing with the bank at the time. Defence counsel Brendan Grehan asked Deirdre Flannery, former…

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