Irish Life & Permanent plc (IL&P) has announced an operating profit of €341 million for 2008, a decrease of 42% from 2007.
The losses come about because the Permanent TSB was exposed to investments in three Icelandic banks, US investment firm Lehman Brothers and because of an increase in the money set aside to cope with loan losses.
The Group chairman Gillian Bowler apologised for transactions involving Anglo Irish Bank, which led to three directors' resignations, saying they were wrong and that "the board did not know that they were occurring and I apologise unreservedly for them."