Self-proclaimed lifestyle guru Tony Quinn is up to his old tricks. The hypnotist switched to recruiting new customers in England after his cult-like organisation was exposed in Ireland five years ago. The Sunday Times tracked him down to London where his followers were holding introductory meetings at which they tried to convince people to part with €17,700 for a two-week seminar.
Now he has popped up in Glasgow. The Daily Record reports that a Quinn devotee has set up an “Educo-gym” in the city, charging customers €445 for a 12-day health and fitness course, €296 for 12 15-minute weight training sessions and €148 for five nutritional supplements. The gym even sells a Tony Quinn distilled water.
Scots are also being encouraged to go on the seminars and if necessary to remortgage their homes to pay for them. “You don’t even notice the difference in your monthly outgoings,” say Quinn’s apostles. They also claim the millionaire, who now lives in the Bahamas, has cured people of cancer. A girl at one Quinn seminar reputedly had a lump under her arm; next day “it was gone”. Would that Quinn could disappear so easily.
Garland must know $100 goes a long way in Cuba
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They search him here, they search him there, but if American investigators really wanted to nab fugitive Sean Garland, they missed a glorious opportunity last week. The Workers party (WP), of which Garland remains president despite allegations that he circulated forged $100 bills, invited the Cuban ambassador to a reception in Waterford. And Comrade Garland was among the Stickies that turned up to fete Fidel Castro’s representative.
Garland addressed the gathering, and presentations were made to the ambassador on behalf of the WP. Surely a mounted $100 bill would have been not only an appropriate but a most useful gift for the Cuban.