Feargal Quinn (27 November 1936 – 24 April 2019) was an Irish businessman, politician and television personality. He founded the Superquinn supermarket chain and served as a Senator for the National University constituency from 1993 to 2016. Early and personal life Quinn was born in Dublin in 1936. His father, Eamonn, founded a grocery brand, and later the Red Island resort in Skerries. He was a first cousin of Labour Party politician Ruairi Quinn and of Lochlann Quinn, former chairman of Allied Irish Banks (AIB). Quinn was educated at Holy Faith Secondary School, Clontarf, then with a mixed junior school, and Newbridge College, and was a commerce graduate of University College Dublin. He was married to Denise, daughter of Ned and Grace Prendergast, and they had five children. He lived in the Baily area of Howth near Dublin, near the former head office of the Superquinn chain at Sutton. Business and public sector career Quinn built a career in business and later took on a range of public service roles. Supermarkets Quinn founded the national supermarket chain, Superquinn (originally Quinn's Supermarkets), in Dundalk in 1960. As chairman of the company, he developed a reputation for having a high level of customer service compared to other supermarkets, and wrote a manual on customer service, Crowning the Customer". He introduced a number of innovations to the Irish supermarket sector, including Ireland's first supermarket loyalty card in 1993, SuperClub (rebranded in 2007 as Reward Card). On 26 August 2005, Superquinn was sold to a consortium called Select Retail Holdings, which had been formed in 2002. Quinn was replaced as Chairman but remained as non-executive President. On 18 July 2011, it was announced that receivers had been appointed to the business. The following day, it was reported that the business had been sold to Musgrave Group for just over €100 million. All Superquinn shops were rebranded to SuperValu in 2014. Public sector work Quinn became the chairman of the Interim Board for Posts and served as chairman of its successor An Post (the Irish postal administration) until 1989 – he also served on several other public authorities and boards. From 1993 to 1998, he chaired the steering committee which oversaw the development of the Leaving Certificate Applied. In 2006, he was appointed an adjunct professor in Marketing at NUI, Galway. He was also chairman of Springboard Ireland. Business groups He is a former President