Quinn’s crocodile tears don’t change facts — he’s unbelievable

IT WOULD have been hard-hearted not to have felt at least some sympathy for Seán Quinn if you had watched him shed tears on the stage of the protest rally at Ballyconnell in County Cavan last Sunday.

This was what he had been reduced to: once a billionaire, reputedly the richest man on the island, now a bankrupt. The man who felt he could give everything to his children — and didn’t he try, in a financial sense at least? — seeing his son languishing in jail, something he now possibly faces himself. But that’s enough sympathy. He doesn’t deserve any more than a mere thought of it.

So if there are there are tears today when Seán Quinn senior discovers if he is or is not to be sent to jail for contempt shown against previous High Court orders, just remember this: the family have nobody to blame for their problems but themselves.