“If Sean Quinn had sold up in 2005 or 2006, we’d be lionising him as arguably Ireland’s great industrialist.”
This week, Ireland has been talking about Sean Quinn and the RTÉ documentary, Quinn Country. In 2007, Tom Lyons went to the Slieve Russell Hotel and heard Quinn deliver a speech in which he reflected on his life but which also foreshadowed much of what was to come.
This weekend, in a special podcast which includes excerpts from that speech never previously broadcast, Tom Lyons and Ian Kehoe talk to Dion Fanning and reflect on Quinn's life and times and the themes that have been present through his rise and fall.