Wonder how familiar the man on the street is with the Insurance Levy, which came directly from state bailout for Quinn Insurance. Thats what it means for us today.
Shortsighted of RTE to give him a platform.
I wouldn't say shortsighted. It'll only be a disaster if they don't challenge the narrative that Quinn is trying to build in the first episode. If it's going to be a PR platform for Quinn then it'll be shocking that the state broadcaster could air it.
I think though there are signs from the first episode that they will have a more balanced angle on it. His ban from the Slieve Russell would be a good place to start.
I am hoping that some of the lingering shots of the quarries are a prelude to an examination of the unlawful environmental destruction he was engaged in.
He'll have the Russell back within 12 months.
We're very forgetful as a country around this stuff.
And it will end up staying forever. Similar to USC.
LOL. Sure he has no money.
Are you saying that he lied to the courts when he entered his insolvency proceedings?
They lost very little compared to Quinn and they were the people who told lies and mislead Quinn. How much did they lose?
Either way I don't have a lot of sympathy for Quinn as he had everything and let greed lead him astray.
Did he cause the financial crash on 08 with his gamble? Or did we bail out German financial system?
As Dirty Harry used to say "a man has to know his limitations" and he didn't
As he said himself he always found it easy to run a business
That was his strength running multiple businesses , he should have stuck to it, instead he jumped into the shark pool and got eaten
I'm saying exactly what I said.
" He'll have the Russell back within 12 months "
Shur he’s a great man.
Not hard to tell where your from.
My in-laws from the west all had to head to the UK, states etc in the 70s for work. I can see how he was a hero to the locals there as without him their kids would be gone too. There was no multinationals queuing up back then.
He gambled the lot n lost and thems the breaks, but surely there was a insurance regulator to ensure insurance companies had enough dough for future claims? I take it he's another Patrick neary asleep at the wheel n pensioned off n on a 6 figure pension!
Not saying that at all. Not from the area, have no connection with him or no sympathy for what seems on the surface absolutely baffling business decisions around the time of the crash.
Just think it’s being over egged the impact that his greed/ stupidity whatever had on the level of destruction to our economy. It was far bigger than him.
His apparent level of delusion and victim complex shown last night I completely agree with the ridiculing of. And I assume maybe more sinister stuff to come tonight and tomorrow.
Woah, be careful what you say there - seemingly some folk on here do not believe that there was crap financial regulation at the time that led up to the financial crisis!
Major risk taker which a lot of successful business people are. I'm sure there are many of us with good business ideas but don't have that trait to throw everything at it.
Is biggest strength (his fearlessness) was ultimately his downfall.
On one sense, I have great respect for what he built and the jobs he created in that area but unfortunately that has been tainted by some of the more recent going ons you there. I do like a break at the Slieve Russell though. Nice an convenient to escape Dublin every so often.
I always find it a tad ironic that when a financial problem gets big enough we abandon capitalism and adopt socialism instead, ie, most of us end up having to pay for the bloody mess.
Capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich.
Not everyone in that area thinks he is a god.
Saying it doesn't make it true.
They wouldn't have lost literally everything though.
Plenty of assets were put beyond reach, make no mistake about it.
Fearlessness?
Obstinate, delusional, blinkered, naive, arrogant. Mostly arrogant.
The good people of Ireland should march to Leinster House and petition the government to return the Quinn group to the rightful owner - one of the greatest and brightest entrepreneurs our country has ever known.
These guys will always be prepared to put their money where their mouths are and have no fear in taking financial risks.
This leads to job and wealth creation.
Our country needs risk takers or else we run the risk of losing our best and brightest.
We Irish showed the world we were great entrepreneurs during the Celtic Tiger years.
This magical era can be recreated only if this poor man is given what is rightfully his back.
Ireland should become a country where bankruptcy is not penalised.
Show me a man who never failed and I will show you a man who never succeeded.
Failure breeds success.
The Wright brothers failed many times before they became airborne.
Fairly obvious who the pay master was for the Lunney kidnap after the first 5 mins.
Des Cahill guffawing on stage - going to be a tough watch.
If only we could take away their appetite for greed! The deadliest of the 7.
No, very many thought he was an arrogant fool.
When the story of any business becomes about one person, don't be an investor, whether thats Zuckerberg or Musk or Trump or Sugar or whatever.
The World's very best businesses, the ones you really never hear about, but who pay handsome dividends to their shareholders or owners, are run by small teams of intelligent but reticent people, where no single one of them, can take make or break decisions on their own.
They talk about being the 'face' of something and yes it was his name over the door, but to me, its simply a red flag.
We will have to wait 12 months to find out...
Personally I'm on the edge of my seat like...
What’s the paymaster thing about. Don’t understand that part of this whole thing
So im right in saying that underneath it all he was no different to the man who spends the heating and food money in the bookies on a friday leaving the family with nothing.
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