Thousands show up to show support for bankrupt billionaire Sean Quinn

Noreen, you dont know what youre talking about. Please shut up.

While there is no disputing the Quinn's have been major contributors to employment and jobs in the country the fact is they made bad calls by investing in Anglo and others which were a disaster,they made the decisions to transfer assets outside the state so as to avoid paying their debts,we all have to take responsibility for our own decisions we make in life,the Quinns are no different.

Who controls the european courts? Deutsche bank? It is time for all working class people to file suit against bank executives and insurance executives around the world! Their phony paperback industry is helping nobody except line their own pockets. Who are the executives keepers? I wouldn,t say Quinn will ever drown in his own sweat!

Thank Goodness for irishpjk/ssdd and ALL other informed people to speak out to help on this sad event for The Quinn Family. Can "Irish Central" use their influence and lobby the Irish Government to refer the whole sad saga to The European Courts - I do hope you can. The power of the press is a useful tool. Please Help if you can. And in the meantime The Court Order jailing them should be suspended.

wtf It’s great to see the people who know the Quinn family come out to speak the truth about their business. However it is sad that so many of your readers are clueless about what happened. When the banks folded the people investigating the banks jumped to the conclusion that Quinn did not have enough capital to cover what could become his debts. They refused to listen to the man’s explanations, end result people started to pull away from his business. Had Quinn been left in charge of his company and allowed time to make necessary changes his company could be on solid footing today and most of his employees would still have jobs and be paying taxes instead of drawing social welfare. That’s why so many people are standing behind Mr. Quinn.

ssdd I agree with your comments. I do not know of many bankers (if any) that have been prosecuted for their wrong doing - even some of the politicians are also without their share of blame. This whole sad saga should be referred to The European Courts for an Independent Judgement. Then if this court finds The Quinn Family guilty every fair minded citizen will back this decision. What I and thousands of other people can not agree with is the illegal take over of Quinn Direct and Quinn Healtcare. Both of these successful businesses could have traded their way out of deficit and the Irish taxpayer would not be burdened with this debt. Thank goodness there are good people like ssdd to try to get a balnced viewpoint across. Independent Judgement and Fair Play is not too much to ask.

Cavan! if QUINN IS THE BEST THEY CAN OFFER WHAT CAN ONE SAY.

A GATHERING OF PAPAL KNIGHTS LED THE PEOPLE OF CAVAN AND BEYOND , THEY DIDNT RALLY WHEN FATHER BRENDAN SMYTH SEXUALLY ABUSED THEIR CHILDREN-- FROM THAT ROTTEN COMPOUND IN CAVAN OR IN THE DAYS OF CHILD ABUSER BISHOP MC QUIAD ?

HOW MANY BANKERS are being hounded and imprisoned in the same fashion? Google and look to how Iceland is dealing with them and they are better of for it! WHAT A LOAD OF S***T we have been spun from our politicians who let this S***T happen in the first place. Obviously the information given about ANGLO IRISH to Sean Quinn and the other investor’s was NEGLIGENTLY and CRIMININALLY forwarded to the ten investors. ALSO HAVE these bankers profited from the deal they seem to have dishonestly set up to prop up Anglo shares? I believe more is still to come out. Shame on the Irish Government to scapegoat this self made entrepreneur, someone who could have sustained and created new jobs. Something Ireland and the twats in Westminster and Stormont are trying to create!

noreendelargy : "The Quinn Family deserve justice." Are you **** joking ? The Irish people / the Irish justice system deserves justice

Hey,I have an idea,why don't the Quinn family be responsible for their own actions,nobody forced them to take loans of millions from Anglo and invest or gamble on various enterprises which turned sour,i assume the supporters at the weekend meeting are prepared to bail out the Quinn's, because the taxpayers most certainly are'nt

In the U.S. he would have been charged and jailed for insider trading of bank stocks. He attempted to make easy money by investing in Anglo stock hoping for a rise in price. When that didn't happen he chased it with more money. The bank lent money to 'the 10' in an effort to fool the market that the stock was on an upward tick to stimulate public interest that would have let Quinn bail out. It didn't work - it was a criminal enterprise and now he has to pay the consequences, family and all. The good thing is, he can start again and this time do it the way he should have, through honest work and skip the short cuts. Why he's not in jail speaks to the power of contacts within the judicial system.

The Irish peasant attitude is alive and well and marching in support of their "betters" in Cavan last night. Sad. Very sad. Ireland will simply HAVE to get away from this carry on. We also display a ridiculous (and similar) character trait when we elect to Dáil Éireann some gombeen who has been kicked out of his/her political party for wrongdoing - he/she normally tops the poll by a mile as an Independent in the next election. Sad. Even sadder. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

I do not deny the fact that Sean Quinn knew or should have known that borrowing money from a bank in which you intend to buy shares is illegal and unethical. HOWEVER,it is apparent to me that Sean Quinn and the Quinn family are scapegoats in this fiasco. Anglo gets a slap on the wrist for enticing commission of an illegal act and nearly single-handedly causing the bank collapse, while the Quinns are persecuted? Desperate times call for desperate measures, and I don't blame the Quinns for trying to save some of what they built. They are losing their personal assets while the €2.3 bilion is owed by the Quinn corporation, not by the Quinns personally. I do believe that as a matter of principle Sean Quinn, had he been left Quinn Healthcare, would have paid back the loan amount in some manner, shape or form. Talk about kicking a man when he's down? The Irish courts seem to be very choosy about who they prosecute!

Mr. Justice Peter Kelly is a most honourable man. He is a professional, he is completely neutral and his feelings do not come into it. Yet he condemned Sean Quinn more than any other person who ever came before him in his career in that court. Quinn's crime is that he fraudulently built up Anglo's shares so that any unfortunate coming along might buy them in the mistaken belief that they were worth anything, conned by Quinn. Now if Fr. D'Arcy, who I know a long time ( since 1980) can look me in the eye and tell me that's fine...