Quinn

17 September 2019; Derrylin, Co. FermanaghAs he pulled out onto the main road from the Quinn Industrial Holdings car park, with Slieve Rushen Mountain in his rear-view mirror, Kevin Lunney’s mind was on the evening ahead: dinner with the family, possibly cutting the lawn afterwards, definitely looking through papers ahead of an important board meeting the following morning. Distracted by these thoughts, he failed to notice the black Audi tailing him.He sped along in his Toyota Land Cruiser, unhindered. Traffic congestion in Derrylin was never a concern. That’s the way he liked it. His evening commute was less than ten minutes, door to door. A much different scenario to what he’d faced during his time away from this place, his home. He’d left many years earlier to study electrical engineering at Queen’s University in Belfast and, after university, got a job with Andersen Consulting in Dublin, a role that took him across the Atlantic for a while to work on a project with Microsoft in Seattle. But now he was back home and, truthfully, he never missed the big city life. Instead, he was content to be back among family who, for generations, had lived along the narrow roads he was now driving, between the border villages of Derrylin and Kinawley. He knew every house and family along the route. The school friends with whom he’d grown up, played football and worked alongside. All that had been possible because of one phone call from the man who had gone on to become like a second father, a mentor, to him; the businessman who changed his life.Sean Quinn. This is the gripping inside story of Irelands bankrupt billionaire, Sean Quinn, who went from rags to riches before gambling it all on Anglo-Irish Bank shares and became the worlds biggest personal loser of the economic collapse of 2008. A millionaire by thirty, Quinn took on the Irish cement business in the 1980s and won. He became an almost mythical character, creating thousands of jobs at a time when the dark shadows of mass unemployment and the Troubles loomed over the borderlands. Then he gambled on the stock market, and this time he lost. Quinns senior team was hand-picked, with loyalty prized above all else. But they have now become the sole focus of his obsession, as he holds them responsible for what happened. The atmosphere in Quinn Country turned dark and ominous, culminating with the horrific abduction and attack on Kevin Lunney in 2019. Ten years after losing it all, Quinn is a brooding figure in a monstrous house, refusing to accept any blame for his downfall. Featuring exclusive interviews with the man himself, and prominent figures from his inner circle, this is the truly remarkable story of the man everyone said was too big to fail.