Anglo tried to ruin me forever, says Quinn

Bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn told the High Court Anglo Irish Bank had tried to ruin him forever, bullied him out of office and made him “a criminal in Irish society”.

“I should not be here,” he told Ms Justice Elizabeth Dunne.

Any loss to the taxpayer as a result of the Quinn family moving property assets beyond the reach of Anglo, now Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, is “mickey mouse” compared to the €5bn loss to the taxpayer after the bank’s “rape” of the Quinn group, he said.