Who thinks Sean Quinn is a great businessman now?

So what's the joker worth and where does he sit in the pecking order after the 5?

A cynical person might say its all part of the act

He said the priest named him on the altar when asking the congregation to help the guards if they had information on the paymaster behind the attack on Kevin Lunney. Obviously the priest didn’t name him so why would he have objected to the priest putting out that request if he had nothing to do with the attack? I remember he made a direct complaint to the Vatican about the priest, not to Dublin btw

I can understand the community supporting him - On the Cavan Fermanagh border there literally is nothing else but Quinn business's. He kept a whole area in employment.

Now what I cant understand is how he built himself up from nothing. He is an uneducated man - clever but uneducated. He had money backing from somewhere at the start and where did that money come from - I doubt the bank backed him. So where did he get his start up money to set huge business's up at a time when everyone was relatively poor? This puzzles me and I know that border region would have been known as bandit country. Was Sean Quinn 'clean' to start off with?

A successful entrepreneur is a risk taker, a gambler.

The programme last night touched on it, very very lightly, but he had a name for being a bit of a shark at the cards. My dad (not from the area) was working in the area in the early 70s , and was warned off ever playing cards with Quinn. His card games then were very much all in, like car keys if not the house keys "all in" . But the programme portrayed it as being as harmless as the senior citizens playing bridge.

Actually.... maybe thats where he got a bit of his seed capital on top of the sand deliveries!

It's 45 around North tipp. No best Trump and certainly no joker. 9 players, 3 sets of 3, all cards thrown into the centre of table. Nerves of steel you'd want!

It's interesting that he started off in farming, then sand and gravel, then cement, glass etc

these were all tough hard nosed industries where you needed lots of capital, machinery, workers etc

"What's cement made of, stone and shine, sure I have stone and shite"

His eyes were opened with the insurance and financial sectors, the money that could be made without having to turn "stones and shite" into money, you didn't need big factories, machinery and loads of workers, you could make this money with a licence, capital and a few skilled workers.

However he didn't realise the risks involved in finance when the tide turns and leverage works against you

At the stage he entered the world of CFD's he had a huge team of advisors around him. You would have think he would have sought their advice and possibly he was told by them to go for it. Its also possible he ignored their advice not to do it.

I used to admire Sean Quinn and the wealth and employment that he bought to a deprived area. I actually was one of the people that thought he was unjustly treated. But the carry on over the last few years with the intimidation and violence towards Lunney and his coworkers, damage done to property etc. changed my mind completely about SQ. Lets face it the people behind this violent campaign are vile thugs - its disgusting behaviour.

Sean Quinn insists he is not behind it - well if he is not the paymaster then who the hell is? Both him and his wife are still very sore over loosing it all thats for sure. Now if he is behind the violence then he has some very violent contacts and it does beg the question was there a criminal element to the business all along. As far as I am aware he has not put forward any theory as to who is behind the dirty goings on.

Sean Quinn needs to grasp that hes lost it - he needs to be happy with what hes left with. Lets face it he is still a wealthy man - he needs to move on gracefully and stop blaming everybody else.

Quinn practiced deceit, and somehow it is others fault?

He must be a good republican.

One crook outsmarted another crook, that is the real story.

A cop-out to blame others.

Absolutely agree.

He gambled on something he shouldn't have and something the true state of was being held back from him. As Anglo had done to others to all our costs. Regulation and oversight failed and we all paid the price for that.

What he did in his gamble and after that was wrong.

What galls me to this day is that very few others at the helm of that ship didn't pay anything like the price he did. But we know there is no real accountability here. Wagons circled and all that.

This times a hundred.

Like Boris purposefully messing up his own hair before he goes on stage.