What happened at Anglo was no defence for Quinns’ actions

ALL of the obnoxious wrongs being revealed at Anglo Irish Bank do not make the equally abhorrent actions of the Quinn family right.

Why compare one to the other? Well, there are people — such as Sinn Féin’s Cavan/Monaghan TD Caoimhgín Ó Caoláin — who have tried to use the Anglo revelations to provide support for the Quinn family, to bolster the argument that all of its woes were the result of the wrongdoing at Anglo. And I suspect that others are biding their time. Quinn was at it again yesterday in an interview with his sympathetic local newspaper, the wonderfully named Impartial Reporter.

Ó Caoláin told his local radio station that: “I do believe that the disclosure of the full facts and all the information will indeed vindicate his (Sean Quinn’s) position and his family’s in the bigger picture in terms of the unfolding episode of the story of Anglo Irish Bank”.