The professional classes who dominate the media and which steered the good ship Ireland,but not themselves nor their cronies,,onto the rocks of economic Armageddon ,and who despise all decent people from the hidden Ireland are at it again.
Having lectured the populace at large about the evil Quinns of Cavan and demonised them at every hands turn,and having sneered at those decent GAA people who continue to stand by the most maligned family in Ireland ,these vultures who fed from the froth of the economic bubble and were cheerleaders for the culture of greed continue to spew their biased poison in the reportage of the Supreme Court case on the contempt issues which arose there.
Both the print and electronic media headlined the judgement as a loss of the Appeal by the Quinns .It was anything but.Certainly he lost the Appeal on one ground only and that was he was in contempt regarding a payment made to to a Russian lady.
But all the judges agreed that a contempt finding relating to to 30 coercive orders was entirely wrong .
Not only that but the vastly experienced Supreme Court judge Adrian Hardiman disagreed with the majority decision on the issue of the payment to the Russian lady.
I suppose he too is an ignorant bog man who doesn't know his arse from his elbow.
I find it horrifying that The Government ,our Bank under the former leader of Fine Gael and such a supposedly well up coterie of financial experts could get it so wrong in the second highest Court in the land.
It is disappointing that a High Court judge could be so wrong also.Bearing in mind that judges tend to stick together makes the successful part of the Appeal all the more remarkable.Fair play to the Judges for bringing some objectivity and fair play to the matter.
The tactics of the State in this matter are appalling.They have bankrupted the Quinn patriarch and placed a coterie of Receivers over all the Quinn Companies,thus ensuring that the Quinns cannot contest the States actions on a level playing field.They cannot afford lawyers of a calibre equal to the States nor do they have the resources of the State.
The Assignee for Bankruptcy ,as far as I know,steps into Sean Quinn's shoes in all matters relating to his assets,including personal assets and Company shares in the Quinn companies.His job is to realise the assets for the benefit of Quinns creditors,which creditors Quinn cannot pay,which is why he was bankrupted in the first place.Given this the Assignee,even if he wants to,would not have the money to pay for legal fees for Sean Quinn.
The Receivers have control of the assets of the Quinn companies so no fighting fund there.
All fair minded people recognise that this is an unequal battle ,similar to the All Ireland foot ball Champions playing the Dunderry junior 4 football team.
Now there is genuine doubt over whether the majority of the debt claimed by Anglo is owed at all and I cannot understand how this part of the debt can be pursued at all until this issue is decided.It seems to me to be putting the cart before the horse to enforce this portion of the debt before the hearing of the fully and equally contested court case on the issue.
The attitude of a Rte journalist toward people who were willing to fund the Quinns legal actions on a recent Sunday programme was entirely in Keeping with e the wider media bias on the issue,that is totally biased against the people involved.And fairly sickening.
I suppose nothing symbolises the gulf between Officious Ireland and the hidden Ireland than the contrast between Miriam O Callaghan and the Quin women in the recent programme on the issue.Miriam is so noticeably different from them that she might be from another planet.
There are indeed two Ireland's ,which I would classify as know all Ireland ,where the same media pets are trotted out all the time,and get up and do it Ireland ,where the Quinns live.
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