Who thinks Sean Quinn is a great businessman now?

You are the King of Whataboutery when it comes to defending those you support. Your total contribution to the thread has consisted of whatabout everyone else. Regulators can only act on information they have available. Criminals that build up secret shares through CFDs are by definition information that is not available to regulators, so whatabouting the regulator as your posts have consistently done is defending Quinn.

Or there are people a bit in between.

Many people messed up for what happened to have happened - these people have suffered no real direct consequences (no worse that the rest of us) for not doing their jobs correctly.

Quinn is a good distraction from that very thing - that doesn't absolve him of blame - but the bigger picture needs to be kept in mind.

Jason Brennan and Kevin Larney did an outstanding series of podcasts on Quinn last year - went a lot deeper than RTE seem to have done. Some of the details they described around Quinn and the family tried to hide their money in Eastern Europe are ridiculous that they are almost hard to believe.

Blaming the regulators is a cop-out - Quinn's subsequent behaviour has shown that the contempt he had for any authorities trying to tell him what to do.

His downfall came from ego getting the better of him - he assumed because he was successful in his own area of expertise that he'd be able to apply his golden touch to whatever he wanted. He gambled massively and lost, and has now spend the best part of a decade and a half blaming everyone but himself for it.

This may be already answered as I haven’t skipped to the end.

If the 5 of trump is worth ten and you’re playing a 5 card game, that only makes 30 a hand.

I’ve played 35 before but it’s a 7 card game. Don’t think I’ve ever played with the joker, must ask my mum.

The ads for it alone show what it'll be like. Him sitting there looking into the camera telling lies trying to turn the public narrative back in his favour. No thanks

This thread is almost as interesting as the program. No doubt in my mind the days of reckoning are fast drawing for many a character in those badlands. Plenty more of Quinns and his like. Will we even find out about them, methinks so.

Indeed. I knew people who worked for him and they were sent out to try and settle claims with offers for injured parties usually with an upper limit of 10K. This included people with personal injuries before the case went to court and multiples of that amount were awarded.

That first episode was just RTE gagging on Sean Quinn's member. Hopefully the second and third episode are a bit more critical.

I just dont know - I would love to think he is an honest man who just worked hard. Back in those days it was hard to get such large finance form banks. It was hard to get your foot in the door in the construction industry and compete with the likes of CRH. Sean Quinn it seems overcame finance obstacles and managed to convince the building industry to buy his products over established names. Hopefully no dirty money or bully boy tactics were used.

Im sure you would have to agree the violent tactics which occurred in Quinn country since Quinn lost control do raise questions. Who else is so annoyed with the situation to turn to violence - if Sean Quinn isnt involved in this than someone else lost out bigtime too.

Dunne and Fitzpatrick both went bankrupt as well as Quinn, how do you make out they didn't suffer the way Quinn did. After all, he is still living in his big palace in Cavan while Dunne is in exile.