Dogs on the street, Francie. Some slates being lifted these days and lots of creepy crawlies underneath.
He was sent to jail blanch.
And don't get me started on those who avoided jail and remained wealthy. Jeez Louise.
Why doesn't he tell Northern Sounds the bits that were edited out?
Always the Shinners fault. 😁😁 Deary me, the attempt to involve them here is as usual hilarious Doc.
I took his comments to mean that they had made cuts to what he had to say and only told us what we already know.
Sean Quinn said there was an agreement in place with the documentary makers that he would have his opportunity to tell his side of the story.
Speaking to Joe Finnegan on Shannonside Northern Sound, he believes that hasn't happened and that the documentary will bring nothing new to what already is in the public realm.
Did any of his factories ever produce slabs?
What do we need to hear?
Man has avoided jail and remains a wealthy man despite having put a 2% insurance levy burden on all of us.
From what he have seen so far, he just appears to have been just another version of the Healy-Raes who managed to be a little more successful for a little more time before crashing spectacularly, all while having a distant relationship with reality and legality.
I would like to learn more about his cross-border activity and the anger he expressed towards customs officials.
Far as I know, the 'hotel' was a huge success from day one. He confounded the sceptics (and there were many) with that one TBF. It's back in profit under it's new ownership...hardly in the 'wrong place'.
Wait for the rest of it, Francie, wait for it. Those SDLP heavies helping him out with intimidation are bound to come to the fore.
Sean and his buddies will have the opportunity to lodge a complaint with the broadcasting authority, or do the old Mary Lou Sue thing in an attempt to close down public service broadcasting carrying out its duty in investigating a man and his backers. A man whose actions means a levy on every insurance policy taken out in this country.
Well done to RTE for making this programme and hugely interesting that they decided to run it over three consecutive nights in a change to their schedule.
Thugs don’t get to rule the roost anymore.
Yeh blanch, we know he recieved support across the political spectrum and beyond for a time.
Mirror image of your sensational find here.
Basic research is your friend.
Sounds like someone with a bad hand trying to call someone’s bluff. Except financial markets are not a poker game.
I took Quinn's comments to mean he didn't like the way the programme ultimately portrayed him when he saw the final cut.
To me it sounds a bit like Prince Andrew going on the BBC thinking he could be clever, tell the world how he unable to sweat etc..but made himself actually look more guilty.
But, let's wait and see the entire programme.
I wasn't going to watch it but found it interesting.
I've no doubt they have sufficient funds stashed away so that his kids and grandkids will want for nothing, but he is still bitter over his bank gamble.
The program touched on it - he was secretly trying to buy Anglo Irish bank.
He didn't want to buy ordinary shares as that would drive the price up and some other billionaire might go against him and outbid him.
I wonder how the hotel is doing? It's quite the vanity project in the wrong place.
His house is fair high maintenance for an elderly couple, money or not.
Unfortunately, neither Sean Quinn nor Sinn Fein have managed to obliterate every article under the Right to be Forgotten directive.
Sinn Fein's Michelle Gildernew also lent her support.
"He has been treated disgracefully by the Irish government," she told the Impartial Reporter newspaper.
"Had they not tried to strip him off all his assets, including his home, deny him the ability to function in business, and routinely try to humiliate him I believe he would have paid back every penny he owed to the Irish taxpayer.
"He accepted he had done wrong, but all our attempts to make the government show some common sense were ignored. He is being punished for having the audacity to buy the bank and for being an ordinary man from Fermanagh who is hugely respected by his community," she said.
The man was a complete crook and we are all paying 2% on our insurance because of him.
There are a lot of people who don't want to hear both sides of this and other stories.
My fears for this programme are that RTE (if Quinn is to be believed) have edited what he has to say down to what we already know.
We will have to endure that and more from Ireland's chief self appointed psycho analyst Fintan O'Toole. 😫
Came across as a bitter man who blames everyone else for his mistakes and getting involved in things he didnt understand
Strange you can judge the narrative of a programme you haven't and have no intention of watching?
Fwiw, I thought Part 1 was fairly balanced and I will judge fully when I've seen it all.
Dude got greedy and lost his bollocks. Classic gambler story. Seeing him driving around in his Range Rover and living in his fancy McMansion is galling tbh. Now running a bucket shop gambling business so he can heap more misery on Irish people.
Hopefully we get an idea of who the “paymaster” is very soon.
Quinn family were always associated with the SDLP, there was talk of his brother Peter (GAA president) standing as an MEP at one time.
I don't think he shied away from the observation that he was involved in deceit and even said at one stage he would have done what Cement Roadstone did and treated the share buying in Anglo as a kind of game.
This times a hundred.
Like Boris purposefully messing up his own hair before he goes on stage.
It's far from 'propaganda' to be fair to RTE.
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.
I hear Quinn is complaining that some local people turned on him! I'm not remotely surprised as I recall talking to locals in Ballinamore in the Celtic Tiger years and Quinn was loved and loathed/ feared in equal measure. Too fond of his own publicity.
One crook outsmarted another crook, that is the real story.
A cop-out to blame others.
Like I said it’s akin to had Warren Buffett put everything into Lehman brothers prior to September 2008
It’s quite amusing reading the comments, on one hand Quinn is apparently a legend to have become so successful, a self made man, on the other someone should have held his hand when Sean innocently stumbled across the bankers at Anglo Irish?
Refuse to watch this propaganda piece, putting this fella out as some sort of wronged and harmed friendly old man who was a hero for his community. This fella took a massive gamble and fucked it. No more than a fella going into his local bookies thinking he's buying money on a cert and losing it all just on a bigger scale. If you can't face the losses don't do the bet
Quinn practiced deceit, and somehow it is others fault?
He must be a good republican.
Watched the first 10 minutes or so but as someone (like most) who would have a major interest in goings on back then there's a few things that need to be said.
TBF, it would have been possible (back then) to build up a business if you had access to the land/raw materials for what he initially did. He wasn't an "overnight" success - it took time and I'd say a lot of hard work.
A lot of people who have been successful in business tended not to do too well at school. I think it takes a type of personality rather than a type of intellect to be good in business, with a large smathering of hard work and good luck.
The other thing I would say, is Quinn did some shyster moves circa 2005 and onwards for which we are all still paying HOWEVER, as touched on earlier in this thread, there were countless other people that also enabled this to happen, people whos profile is nowhere near Quinns.
I don't particularily have much time for him or what he has done mind.
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