The return of Sean Quinn: “I never considered throwing in the towel”

Once the richest man in Ireland, with group businesses that produced profits of €500 million a year, Sean Quinn is back in business with an online gambling venture that, he says, has turned a profit in its first six months

Bankrupted. Imprisoned. A business that employed 8,000 people lost. Another man might have been broken. But Seán Quinn sr is not any ordinary man.

Quinn recently turned 70 and is now a grandfather, but he has lost none of the astonishing determination that helped him build from scratch an empire that at one stage made him the richest man in Ireland.

Six months ago, Quinn returned to business with a new online gambling ...