Sean Quinn breaks down in tears as 5,000 march in support of his family’s bank battle

Dail Eireann is not the national parliament, though it may be a notional one. Previous financial regulators didn't regulating the Irish private banking sector, a key part of the state's financial ruination once again. Sean Quinn is a self-made man, who earned his money by the sweat of his brow, unlike some silver spooners who sit in judgement of him. His companies created employment in his native County Fermanagh and neighbouring Co Cavan, straddling an artificial provincial and national divide. His only failing may have been his naivete about credit pushing banksters.

Ireland is supposedly different from other countries. For instance, Sean Quinn openly admitted and defended the spiriting away of money from the creditors on TV. In most other European countries such an open admission on TV would have resulted in his instant arrest. Prosecutors would have been required by law - upon learning - to act automatically and issue an arrest warrant. Bankruptcy fraud is taken very serious in most other countries. If say a politician would be involved in such a fraud, it would be the sudden end of such a politician. No way that he could wield political power and influence. Very interesting, really remarkable, is the fact that a levy of 2% is put on all insurances in order to compensate for the depleted insurance fund of the former Quinn insurances. This levy will have to paid for years to come. Yet the media like to fool and drag around with Quinn, never minding this costly issue. People are supposed to have costly "entertainment" and just cough up the money in a state of total amnesia.

Everyone's out to get them : the bank they owe the money to, even the financial regulator and even the national parliament. Forget what they owe. Ciara, Seán, Colette, Aoife and Brenda are the true and rightful owners in the Quinn parallel universe.

Unfortunately, Justice Elizabeth Dunne will break the Quinns' spirit on Friday next when she sentences Sean Snr. to join his son in Mountjoy Jail in Dublin.

I really don't accept all this,i'm totally innocent stuff from the Quinn's,its stretching the imagination to have us believe that Anglo would pump millions into any company but don't even bother to lift the phone to tell the owners,they have been found by the High Court to have transferred 500 million of assets outside the jurisdiction of the state illegally,its laudable their supporters turn out in support but they are the ones depending on the Quinns for employment,the rest of us can make a more rational judgement

were they crocodile tears??

boohooing bast....

Great to see a good turn out in support of the quinn family. Best of luck to them in their ongoing battle.