New book promises to lift lid on loss of Quinn fortune
Just several years ago Sean Quinn was ranked among the 200 richest people in the world amassing a personal fortune in region of €6 billion. Today his businesses have been taken from him. His efforts to keep his assets from his creditors have seen him imprisoned for a period, for contempt of court. And on top of it all he and his family remain embroiled in one of the biggest and most dramatic legal battles in Irish history.
How did this all happen? ‘Citizen Quinn- A Man, An Empire, and a Family’ by journalists Ian Kehoe (former investigative reporter for Prime Time, and Sunday Business Post) and Cavan-native Gavin Daly (Sunday Times) asks those questions, and uncovers the answers.
The book, due to be published October 3 by Penguin Ireland, price €14.99, traces the remarkable life of the ‘simple farmer’s son’ who made most of his money through guts and graft long before the excesses of the Celtic Tiger. It also covers how he managed to bring economic vibrancy to an otherwise depressed border region, and to a time then where he lost it all through a multi-billion-euro gamble on the shares of the world’s most toxic bank.
Drawing on exclusive sources close to Quinn, his businesses and his creditors, Kehoe and Daly chronicle the remarkable battle that has unfolded between the Quinn family, Anglo Irish Bank, and the Irish state. Citizen Quinn tells the most extraordinary single story of the Irish crash.
To mark the launch of ‘Citizen Quinn, A Man, An Empire, and a Family’, Gavin Daly and Ian Kehoe, along with Dearbhail McDonald, Legal Editor of the Irish Independent will host a public interview with the authors on Wednesday, October 9 at 7.30pm in the Crannog Bookshop, Unit 1, Newcourt Shopping Centre, Church Street, Cavan.
Tickets for the event are free but space is limited, so please book your tickets by ringing Crannog on 0494332861.
The Anglo-Celt meanwhile has five signed copies of the book to give away. To enter, send in your name and contact details, marked ‘Quinn Competition’, to us by post to The Anglo-Celt Newspaper, Station House, Cavan Town, Cavan, or alternatively enter the competition which can be found on our Facebook page.