Anglo seeks jailing of Quinn for contempt

[Sam Lord]

What's a reactionary Sam?

Does your computer not provide you with access to online dictionaries to look up words you don't know the meaning of?

[Andrew49]

Judge Peter Kelly has reduced the monthly allowance for the Quinn children. They had been allowed 2,000 euros each per week, but this was reduced to a monthly combined total of just over 30,000 euros. The BBC

How will they survive on a measly €1,500 a week? On such weekly income these poor children will be forced into having to pay taxes .... they have been paying taxes, I presume? ... at the same rates as the rest of us. The mind boggles that a judge could - with the stroke of a pen - reduce this once powerful family to almost abject penury. There is the small matter off €32 million also ... but it is tiny compared to the £2bn (pounds) owed (to Anglo now IBRC) by Sean Quinn.

[Dr. FIVE]

Quinn claims and facts

http://www.irishtimes.com/focus/2012...aims/index.pdf

[riposte]

Does your computer not provide you with access to online dictionaries to look up words you don't know the meaning of?

Yeah ... very droll.

[Kev Bar]

Tell that to the 7,000 familes who fed their kids and bought their homes out of the jobs he gave them.

And shure Jaysus if we got the Russians and Ukies to give the dosh back, we might be leaving the wee Mafioskis and Hitmanovs to starve.


We had better march in protest of that.

Let's free Gilligan too.

And hands off Sean Fitz.

Us little people need patronage.

God bless the Quinns.

Decent down to earth people.

Plays cards for a tenner.

And idly gambles billions.

Just cos the sleaze plays stupid, doesn's mean the stupid must swallow it.

We are talking freeform Tea-baggery - Paddy style.

[DCon]

Lawyers representing Petey on the Run have stopped representing him

[musashi]

Lawyers representing Petey on the Run have stopped representing him

Well that's it then, game over man.
On a different note, Fintan O'Toole is getting in on the action:

There is something else that is not in dispute: that Quinn is openly, flagrantly and quite proudly trying to hang on to this money that belongs to us. As he said on Sunday, he took a “very conscious decision” to do “everything in our power to take as many assets as we could”. The basic intention is very simple – to transfer assets from the Irish people to the Quinn family.

Thus, for example, the status of Karen Woods, a part-time receptionist with Joe Duffy Motors in north Dublin, as recipient of one of the largest public salaries in Ireland. The lucky Karen, then the girlfriend (now the wife) of Seán Quinn jnr, was paid €320,297 after tax (the equivalent of at least €400,000) last year by a Russian company whose assets belong entirely to the Irish people.

Handy little number if you can get it.

[DCon]

Good points made in this Times article

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...321232861.html

The repeated invocation of the GAA in support of the Quinn family interest will surely be shocking to many of its members. There will be amazement that the very act of GAA membership should be construed as implying approval of actions that a High Court judge deemed “as far removed from the concept of honour and respectability as can be”.

One might have thought that such a damning finding might have given some Quinn supporters, including those within the GAA, pause for deeper reflection. Not so, it seems. Subsequent to this judgment, and the order jailing Seán Quinn jnr and his cousin Peter – still at large – for contempt of court, the Teemore Shamrocks Gaelic Football Club in Fermanagh published a statement on its website decrying the “injustice inflicted on the Quinn Family” and urging their “fellow Gaels” to unite in opposition to the outrages being perpetrated against them

Can you imagine the reaction were the rugby fraternity to take to the streets or issue statements in support of the disgraced banker Seánie FitzPatrick, a former player and keen supporter of the game? Or if the soccer community were to publicly rally in defence of TD and well-known champion of the game Mick Wallace, in the wake of his admission that he deliberately withheld VAT from the Revenue Commissioners?

It is difficult to envisage how such a squirrelling of private assets and wealth – in defiance of court orders – is compatible with the values of an association whose unique place in Irish life has been built on ideas of service, community and the redistribution of resources from top to bottom, from the centre to the periphery.

Yet, according to former Meath footballer and RTÉ pundit Colm O’Rourke, the GAA tradition of “solidarity” is one that should be readily and unquestionably extended to the Quinns. Fine Gael MEP and former GAA president Seán Kelly clearly agrees.

Interviewed on Radio Kerry, he remarked on how it was “part of the ethos” of the GAA to get behind a “decent family”. The GAA, he added, “stand by our own”.

[Kid Ryder]

It should be remembered that Colm O'Rourke is a property speculator as well as a secondary school teacher. There's a business class entreprenhoorial layer in the GAA that honestly thinks they're worthy of the unthinking support of the terrace fodder. One day, Colm might be in need of a support 'rally' through the streets of Navan should his own plight approach that of the Quinns. That's one of the drawbacks of the GAA being the mass-membership organisation that it is.

[DCon]

No jail for Petey

THE nephew of bankrupt billionaire Sean Quinn will not be returning to the Irish Republic, his father has revealed.

Peter Darragh Quinn, who was sentenced to jail in his absence last month after failing to turn up at a court in Dublin, intends to remain in Northern Ireland - and out of reach of the civil authorities.

His father Peter, the former GAA president, said his son was not afraid of prison but believes he has no chance of getting "fair play or justice" because of what he claimed was the corrupt way the case had been handled.

He claimed there was a conspiracy in the Republic against his family and although his son was "under a lot of pressure", they were fully behind him and his decision to stay in Northern Ireland.

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...l-3188094.html

[Stanley 2]

No jail for Petey







http://www.independent.ie/business/i...l-3188094.html

Next time Petey turns up on a Flight passenger list, Govt should have plane diverted to Dublin for technical reason, sure Cameron would oblige, Petey can join his cousin in the holiday camp.

Would be surprised if Petey turned up in Moscow or Kiev, those boys will by now have changed tack in their attitude to the Quinns.

[Baron von Biffo]

Petey's not afraid of gaol according to his daddy.

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...l-3188094.html

Course you're not Petey. You're a big, brave boy.

[DCon]

Petey's not afraid of gaol according to his daddy.

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...l-3188094.html

Course you're not Petey. You're a big, brave boy.

It's not even jail. It's supervised accommodation

[Baron von Biffo]

FG MEP Sean Kelly has been joined by party colleague Sean Conlan TD as a supporter of the Quinns.

An interesting aspect of this story is that it shows how FG and SF can make common cause - Michelle Gildernew is already a proud supporter of the Quinns.

With Lab facing a savaging at the next GE it's good to know that SF will be there to take the slack.

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...e-3188015.html

[Slim Buddha]

Next time Petey turns up on a Flight passenger list, Govt should have plane diverted to Dublin for technical reason, sure Cameron would oblige, Petey can join his cousin in the holiday camp.

Would be surprised if Petey turned up in Moscow or Kiev, those boys will by now have changed tack in their attitude to the Quinns.

If he turned up in Kiev or Moscow, he might find that a "legal technicality" may land him in the slammer there. Legal technicalities can appear from nowhere in Ukraine and Russia.