Michael Fingleton, the former managing director of the now-defunct Irish Nationwide Building Society, has died. In 1961, Fingleton joined Allied Irish Finance, which gave him the funds to start studying commerce at night at University College Dublin. Fingleton returned home in 1971 to join a century-old Irish lender then called Irish Industrial Building Society, which had five employees, one branch and IR£2.3 million of assets at the time. In 1973, Fingleton qualified as a barrister, though he never practised. He got the lender’s board to agree to expand beyond Dublin and rebrand as Irish Nationwide Building Society (INBS) in 1975.