Who thinks Sean Quinn is a great businessman now?

That's not correct. Those loans were used to 'buy' his shares in Anglo in a futile attempt to stave off a complete collapse of the share price. Ultimately the shares were worthless and just left the debt he built up when he originally bought them. The debt was always his though.

If the state only recuperated 400mill from Sean Quinn...then would we all not have been in a better place if they let him on with the business under the provision he paid back the money over a certain amount of time? Genuine question..even if they only got a billion more back? The business seems to be doing as well but Mannok sure as hell don't have to pay a cent of it. Or am I missing the point? I do understand what he did was atrocious...but in terms of getting the money back would leaving the business running as it was not have been the best option?

This was discussed in episode 1 and he was looking for 600m to get him back on the rails despite already owing billions. It would be a ridiculous state of affairs to have let him carry on - regardless if the State would have recovered more. The State would definitely have recovered more if he just left quietly - should the State give in to blackmail from such a person? Rhetorical question.

Anyway another interesting thing I thought was that this documentary was announced 3 days ago and was a change from the published schedules.

Tried to see if it was announced before that and it was announced 3 years ago and again last year as part of the autumn schedule and obviously not shown either of those times, but it seems to have been rushed onto the TV this week. Wonder is there any reason for that

They were "encouraged" to by the present Management. Things aren't always as they seem.

If it was meant to elicit sympathy, the wife shouldn't have been let on camera. What a weapon.

Yep, in that 30 seconds she came across as a right old hag.

Is there more evidence to come from the phones etc of Dublin Jimmy recovered at his place?

If McGuiness hadn't dropped dead when the cops came through the front door, this would have been an entirely different story

Ok yeah get the point about the state not being held to ransom..I also missed the part where he asked for a loan to get back up and running.

And no I'm not Russian...but there are plenty of other companies who have taken the state and government for fools over the years.

Agree totally with what you are saying and I think that the attack on Kevin Lunney will always be first and foremost in people’s minds when Quinn is mentioned, he may not be the pay master but somebody in his camp is behind all of this, I would say they had some session when Dublin Jimmy **** the load in the UK. The wife serious weapon.

Yeah the house looked empty and cold. Void of love and life. Quinn and the wife seem the type to be spending their days ranting and raving at the walls.

They must be counting the pennies keeping the lights off.