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Seán Quinn 4 Episodes Oct 16, 2026

The Quinn Files traces the rise and fall of Sean Quinn's business empire, from its early success to its controversial collapse. Host Sammy Heaney explores the decisions that caused the downfall, the alleged government cover-up, and the fallout for investors and staff. The podcast asks why many questions around the Quinn story still remain unanswered.

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Illegal But Enforceable, with Solicitor Chris McGettigan | The Quinn Files EP7 Oct 16, 2026 3465 Solicitor Chris McGettigan of PJ Flanagan & Co, Enniskillen, joins Sammy to look at the Quinn case from a legal perspective.Chris focuses on Patricia Quinn's position: a guarantee for a loan of over 100 million that, he says, she never knowingly signed, sought three months after the money was lent, with no independent legal advice. He goes through the Supreme Court finding that the An

Exclusive 2015 Recordings, Broken Trust & The Fight for the Quinn Group | The Quinn Files EP6 Oct 9, 2026 2239 In Episode 6, Seán Quinn returns with previously unheard recordings from December 2015, offering a new insight into the events surrounding the Quinn Group and the people entrusted with its future.The recordings feature discussions involving key figures who, according to Seán, had originally committed to helping return the manufacturing businesses to the Quinn family.Seán reflects on what

Seán Quinn on Money, Regret, and What's Left | The Quinn Files EP5 Sep 25, 2026 2396 In this episode, Sean Quinn breaks down the 2% insurance levy, the appointment of Matthew Elderfield, and the case he says was never there for putting Quinn Insurance into administration — backed, he argues, by the Central Bank's own figures. From there, the conversation turns personal: listener questions sent in via Snapchat cover his current net worth, whether he'd ever start again, who

"I Lost €660 Million. I Made €800 Million." Seán Quinn Answers Your Questions | The Quinn Files EP4 Sep 18, 2026 2306 Sean Quinn answers your questions.After 2.5 million views and thousands of comments, Sean sits back down with Sammy Heaney to take on the questions people actually asked: what the loans really were, who ended up with the assets, why one banker went to prison and nobody else did, and the word that keeps coming up in the comments - greed.He also speaks for the first time about the RTÉ docum

Seán Quinn on Prison, Betrayal and Fighting Back | The Quinn Files EP3 Sep 4, 2026 2676 This one goes somewhere different. Seán talks about actually walking into prison in 2012, what those weeks inside were like, and coming home to try and rebuild.Then it gets into what happened in 2014 when he was given a shot at getting back involved in the business — and how that fell apart too, with a 141-page document he says was written specifically to keep his family out for good. He

How the Irish Government Took 75% of the Quinn Group | The Quinn Files EP2 Sep 4, 2026 2345 Picking up where episode 1 left off — this is the part of the story where the state gets directly involved.Sean talks through the day the government moved in and took control of the Quinn Group, the agreement he says his own board was forced to sign, and a comment from a government minister that he still hasn't forgotten. From there it goes into the court case, the injunctions, assets tie

Seán Quinn Breaks His Silence: The €488 Million Nobody Agreed To | The Quinn Files EP1 Sep 4, 2026 2664 Seán Quinn built one of the biggest privately owned businesses in Ireland from nothing. Then it all came apart — and not the way most people think.In this first episode Seán sits down to walk through how a bet on Anglo Irish Bank shares turned into the biggest financial collapse the country has ever seen, and how his family ended up holding hundreds of millions in debt they say they never

Welcome to The Quinn Files Sep 3, 2026 52 Ireland's richest man lost everything. In three episodes, Seán Quinn tells all on what really happened.

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