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“Quinn-direct is not in trouble .. The only time that Quinn-direct will be in trouble is when Sean Quinn is in trouble. And Sean Quinn is in no trouble. ” – Sean Quinn, to Simon Carswell, then at the Sunday Business Post, 30 December 2001.
One nugget in the SBP article is that at the time, Quinn Direct was nursing losses from heavy investment in tech stocks. As George Bush said, “Fool me once, shame on you … Fool me, you can’t get fooled again”. Right?
Carswell seems to be the go-to person for getting the inside track on the Quinn family’s version of events at the IT.
Fun activity of the past week: pasting the names of the Quinn Group “workers spokespersons” to see whether they were from the PR or management side of the firm (and marvelling at the amazing organisational skills of a non-union workforce, to boot).
A non-union workforce marching in support of their employer. The more things change the more they stay the same? Have we returned to a time when people voted the way their landlord/employer told them to.
A non-union workforce marching in support of their employer. The more things change the more they stay the same?
The manner in which this has been covered by RTÉ and the Irish Times – interviewing the “workers’ representatives” with a straight face, ignoring the obvious astro-turfing by Quinn management – has been most instructive, particularly in contrast to how similar public sector protests and actions have been treated in the recent past.