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There’s a little pleasure in Sean Quinn’s bankruptcy (IrishCentral)
The sight of Ireland’s richest man just two years ago being declared bankrupt in a Dublin court is a very striking one.
Sean Quinn, worth $4 billion at his height, typifies and magnifies what happened to so many Irish people during the height of the boom years followed by the spectacular bust.
Quinn was a massive employer through his Quinn Insurance company located in one of Ireland’s poorest rural areas.
A self-made man with swagger, he typified the era of the Celtic Tiger, moving from deal to deal with seemingly unblemished success.
His downfall was as unexpected as it was dramatic. He essentially gambled on Anglo Irish Bank shares at a time when those shares were about to plummet to zero.
Quinn’s downfall has its tragic overtones too. For m
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