During the last three decades, I have established a friendship with Sean Quinn and have found him to be hardworking, earnest and supportive, with an unrivalled entrepreneurial spirit.
Our company has worked with Quinn Group for more than 25 years, doing up to £3m-worth of business annually, making payments in pounds sterling to their head office at Derrylin in Co Fermanagh.
Before Quinn, the local market was dictated by multi-national operations. The emergence of Quinn Group afforded stability to the construction market and I believe we owe Sean Quinn a debt of gratitude for bringing realism to a monopolised market.
Quinn Group generated crucial employment and made an enormous contribution to our economy. Where are the ministerial voices that could - and should - be defending Mr Quinn in his hour of need? How short the memory of those who watched our economy benefit from the rise of Quinn Group.
I am not alone in my indignation at the treatment of Sean Quinn, executed by IBRC, unchallenged and undefended by the Government.
Surely it is time that the voice of rationality was heard and ordinary, hard-working people took a stand for justice, fairness and the restoration of Sean Quinn as head of Quinn Group.
GEORGE EMERSON
MD, Norman Emerson Group
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5 comments:
Well said Mr. Emerson! In this trying time for business, it is hypocritical of our Government to pretend that they are interested in creating jobs when they have facilitated the destruction of the greatest job creator this country has ever produced.
And all for the return of not one cent to the taxpayers, but instead our bill is being increased to a ludicrous level.
Will Government officials listen to people like yourself and Sean Quinn who are the people who powerhouses in our country. I suspect that the chances of that happening as just about as realistic as pigs flying.
Well said Mr Emerson,Our Government are more interested in Foreign Banks and Bondholders than protecting our own. It is terrible watching the dissapation of the Quinn Group by Anglo and their experts. What took 40 years to build, has been destroyed in 40 weeks. It must be heart breaking for Sean Quinn and his family who live beside the factories to see the complete destruction of the company by agents of the state under the ridiculous ruse of " being in the taxpayers interests ". However the truth always comes out, and I hope there will be an enquiry into what Anglo have done.
Well said. WHO are taking the bankers who created this mess to task. No one. No accountability for their criminal, negilgent and incompetent behaviour. The truth will come out about what really happened between the banks and governments. Only job I have seen that rewards failure with their abhorent bonuses. Sean and others would be creating the jobs Ireland and the UK need. These puppets are not businees people but mere paper pushers putting business men out of business while being let away with it by the people of Ireland and The UK. Shame
George Lee's "The Business' on RTE 1 said it all about Anglo. "New Beginnings" Ross Mc Guire stated that Anglo's challenge to Sean Quinn's bankruptcy was vindictive.
At last, the truth is emerging and it gives us cause for optimism when someone of George Lee's caliber is brave enough to go against the populist opinion about Sean Quinn and stick to the facts. Well done George and Ross Mc Guire.
It was great to hear an unbiased and truthful opinion. Well said Ross is right.
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