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.
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.
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.
Came across as a bitter man who blames everyone else for his mistakes and getting involved in things he didnt understand
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. 😫
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.
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.
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.
Sounds like someone with a bad hand trying to call someone’s bluff. Except financial markets are not a poker game.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
Did any of his factories ever produce slabs?
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.
Always the Shinners fault. 😁😁 Deary me, the attempt to involve them here is as usual hilarious Doc.
Why doesn't he tell Northern Sounds the bits that were edited out?
He was sent to jail blanch.
And don't get me started on those who avoided jail and remained wealthy. Jeez Louise.
Dogs on the street, Francie. Some slates being lifted these days and lots of creepy crawlies underneath.
He went to jail for contempt of court, not on conviction for his deeds. He wasn't the only one who took that option to avoid paying the full price.
'Slates' have been lifted for most of a decade now as regards Quinn...nothing yet to link the Shinners to what happened. But keep up the low level insinuation or get better 'dogs', a chara.
Yet is the key word in your post. A whale only gets harpooned when it comes up to blow. The cracks in the old border omertà are starting to become obvious.
Whose fault is it that he and others haven't been convicted? Why hasn't he and many others involved in this faced trial for what they did?
Quinn contributed to the crash, he certainly is not responsible for the regulatory and oversight incompetance (criminality I would contend) that allowed this and other things to happen.
The wagons were circled to protect and Sean wasn't in that circle.
In my opinion they all should have served time for what they did and didn't do. But this is Ireland of the power swap, true accountability does not exist, this we know to our cost.
Funny that you defend him after those slates have been lifted. Let's keep lifting the slates, I say.
The Quinn family omerta makes the Italian mafia and the PIRA look like all-singing choirboys.
Get back to us when this happens.
Where have I defended what he did?
Go back under your rock with the nonsense blanch. The desparation is more than apparent.
I think that you are seeing what you choose to see.
Francie is correct to say that Quinn contributed to the crash. He is also correct to point out that Quinn managed to gamble as much as he did because our then governments favoured light-touch regulation.
Now stop trying to get your petty anti-SF wins because it really is a pain in the hole having to read through them!
The cracks in the “see no evil, speak no evil” stuff that was accepted for years up there? Slab Murphy, Crossmaglen, the torture and murder of Paul Quinn, Aaron Brady, diesel washing, illegal landfill, cigarette smuggling, the odd punishment beating, good republicans etc?
Cracks appearing, Francie. The old military discipline is disappearing.
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