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Down down deeper and down.

Sure it is. I believe his contempt is a recent development, the vilification is not.

People had a lot of sympathy of Quinn losing his business and so on. They initially would have understanding for Quinn being slow to give the ball back, but as it has become apparent that he has kicked it away then the sympathy has turned to criticism.

Michael Harding's article above is off the point. Of course Quinn did not good work and deserves people's gratitude for that. No doubt he had a false impression of the value of Anglo Irish bank, although he didn't make much of an effort to investigate. But he borrowed the money and he has to pay it back and not hide assets that can be used to pay it back. The country is in a mess and people, especially biollionaires, cannot be excused paying back things (if they have the assets) because they now think the loan was a bad idea. Quinn is the biggest and so has more effort put into sorting him than others.

RIP Con.

Never really thought about it before, but biathlon is a weird event.

Shooting and skiing. Britain should enter James Bond in this one.

Kildare will have a vast crowd there compared to Cork," Tompkins points out.

This might still be true if they played it in Cork!

How can u watch SG in the north with the Rte player blocked?

The RTÉ player is not blocked in the North, only if your IP number does not indicate that it is in North will you have any problems.

SQ interview with Vincent Browne on TV3 now.

Quinn's companies and employees generated an annual tax of over €300 million for the Irish Exchequer.

Why would Quinn Health, for instance, generate less tax now?

http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=18690.750

There seems to have been a right few threads deleted from it though??

That's the "Paddy O'Rourke out" thread

this is the deleted Armagh manager thread
http://gaaboard.com/board/index.php?topic=21856.210

Have Armagh county board taken out a super-injunction?

The whole Quinn debacle is what they are doing wrong now!

What precisely are they doing wrong?

Quinn Insurance was a highly profitable business by all acounts

Anglo Irish Bank was a highly profitable business by all accounts, it isn't any more. Anyone can make money on the way up by not pricing risk properly. Even if Quinn Insurance was not Anglo, many businesses are much less profitable now than in 2007.

Were all the austerity measures and cuts not due to the €85bn bailout??
Now surely you can't blame Quinn for that??

Much of the need for the bailout was driven by the failure of the banks. This was caused by the failure of people to pay back their loans, and Quinn is certainly among the biggest offender in this category, although of course he is not the only one.

Its all related to what the Irish taxpayer is getting so annoyed about... defend the government as they surely can't be the wrong do-ers in this.

The government clearly had bad policies in the past. What exactly are they doing wrong now?

Brolly's point made simple. Over the last 10 - 15 years it seems that if you can stick with Kerry for 60 minutes they will choke/crumble in the last 10 and will get beaten. Seems pretty straight forward to me.

It isn't quite as simple as that. If you haven't managed to stick with Kerry for 60 minutes then you have no chance of beating them. In 2000 Armagh went to extra time in a replay against Kerry, in 2002 we beat them. It could have been other way around.

Manx is a dialect of Gaelic, but some plonker applied Welsh spelling to it so you can't recognise it.

moghrey mie = Maidin mhaith

But f**k that lets take Quinn's profitable enterprises and shove the blame on him when corrupt and inept administrators are given the reins.

Quinn was as inept in the end as any administrator and his concealment of assets is corrupt.