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Sir Tony O'Reilly - How the mighty have fallen!

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  • #92
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    blatantrereg wrote: »
    There is a huge amount of corruption in this country. Some of the upper class can get their way with all sorts of things, even criminal and pernicious things. It's an awful state of affairs.

    Doesn't mean they're all like that though. Take them as a group and there is not much difference between them and any other group of people in terms of character.

    Putting corruption completely aside. As a group they have a very uniform mentality. So much industry in Ireland was poorly developed, and even wiped out, because it.


  • #93
    Knob Longman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭Knob Longman


    meathstevie wrote: »
    Definitely not from O'Reilly's entrepreneurship but from one Mr J Wedgewood, William Martin Murphy, the Irish state....etc etc. Just about everything he touched turned to pure ****e.

    He was still a DemiGod to Official Ireland...:P


  • #94
    zambo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 148 ✭✭zambo


    You might find a lot less sympathy for him among the many people who invested in Eircom and then were forced to sell their shares to O'reilly at a loss.Presumably some of the massive debt he loaded onto Eircom was used to try and prop up the price of shares in Waterford.How come no-one is painting Quinn as a hero for the billions he spent trying to prop up his investment in Anglo


  • #95
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    Jumboman wrote: »
    There is an old saying that says the poor are poor because they are honest.

    I don't think you can become mega rich without having questionable morals.
    Just last week AH was extolling the virtues of Elon Musk...


  • #96
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,331 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    zambo wrote: »
    You might find a lot less sympathy for him among the many people who invested in Eircom and then were forced to sell their shares to O'reilly at a loss.Presumably some of the massive debt he loaded onto Eircom was used to try and prop up the price of shares in Waterford.How come no-one is painting Quinn as a hero for the billions he spent trying to prop up his investment in Anglo

    A hero, I'm not sure but some people are certainly doing an awful lot of harm to the company/companies that bought his old companies/premises.


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