Having sat down at the green baize more than once with this gentleman (for such he is), this reviewer can avow that Mr Reese is certainly a leading claimant to that title but only one among many, and one who has never actually won the world championship held annually in Las Vegas.
Irish talk radio programs have been afire with discussions about the propiority of making a 66 year-old self-made tycoon of global proportions (Quinn was termed the 164th richest man in the world by Forbes in 2008) a national scapegoat, as a substantial minority of the population (especially those in border counties near his own) and some his former job holders avow.