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Tuesday 20 October 2020
Three of the arrests were made by the PSNI, and Gardaí arrested the fourth person, who is being detained in Cavan.
Quinn made the comments after further threats to QIH directors were made this week.
Liam McCaffrey says a “small group of criminals organised by a paymaster” are behind the threats.
Kevin Lunney was abducted from his home in Co Fermanagh in September.
Gardaí and PSNI are investigating after Kevin Lunney was abducted near his home in Derrylin in Fermanagh.
Kevin Lunney was abducted from his home in Co Fermanagh on Tuesday evening.
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The abduction and assault on Kevin Lunney is not an isolated incident.
Sergeant Sean Quinn and Constables Allan McCloy and Paul Hamilton were killed by a bomb.
The legal action was first filed in 2011, and had been expected to last a number of months.
Justice Garrett Simons said there was ‘no realistic basis’ for the application.
The action first initiated in 2011 was delayed for several years pending criminal cases against various Anglo officials.
Managers and their families have been targeted in arson attacks.
It’s understood the incident could be linked to two other recent arson attacks on properties linked to Quinn Industrial Holdings.
Drumm has already pleaded guilty to ten counts of authoritising or permitting Anglo to give unlawful financial assistance.
Turnover at Quinn Industrial Holdings topped €200 million during 2017.
The ex-billionaire is taking a punt on QuinnBet.
QIHL was formed in 2014 when it acquired the building and packaging materials of the former Quinn Group.
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Seán Quinn’s future earnings, hackers attacking a Pentagon Twitter account and a snow forecast for Ireland all had people talking today.
The former tycoon’s glass business looks set to be sold to a Spanish firm.
The Irish Banking Resolution Corporation is trying to reduce legal fees, says Michael Noonan, despite all the legal spats.
The pair appeared at the Criminal Courts of Justice this morning.
The deal for the group of companies covers the vast majority of what was once Sean Quinn’s manufacturing empire.
The one-time chief of Quinn Group launched into an attack on the former Anglo Irish Bank.
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Willie McAteer and Pat Whelan will find out today if they are to face a jail term.
It was the first full day of deliberations in the trial of three former senior executives of Anglo Irish Bank.
CEO Paul O’Brien said it was ‘reckless in the extreme’ stating that employees were in the area that the car was driven in to.
Former CEO of the Financial Regulator Pat Neary met Sean Quinn but ‘didn’t ask him straight-up’ about concerns.
A look back at seven days of evidence at the Criminal Courts of Justice.
The chief executive of Anglo UK Declan Quilligan said that six months after the ‘Maple 10′ deal it was “held up as an example of bad governance”. “I never felt that,” he said in court today.
The first two of ten men who received hundreds of millions in loans from Anglo Irish Bank in order to buy shares in the lender took the stand today.
Seán Quinn took the stand in the Anglo trial today and was combative, but cagey.
Everyone’s talking about hacking at the Garda Ombudsman’s office, a missing tourist in Cork and stormy weather in the UK.
The businessman told the trial of three former Anglo executives that he “doesn’t know what he knew”.
Former head of the Quinn empire, Seán Quinn was today giving evidence in the trial of three former Anglo executives.
At a small meeting in February 2008, Sean Quinn told the Financial Regulator that he had been greedy, the court at the Anglo trial heard.
The Anglo trial heard Sean Quinn lost at least €2.4 billion in his investment in Anglo Irish Bank.
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The phone call in July 2008 ended either when David Drumm of Anglo walked out or when Sean Quinn hung up, the court at the Anglo trial heard.
THE IRISH FARMERS Association has urged Irish MEPs to vote to ban words traditionally linked to meat products from being used on vegetarian alternatives.
The European Parliament is to vote this week on the terminology used for plant-based meat and dairy substitutes.
Amendments put forward would restrict the naming of such products so that they could not use terms normally associated with meat products.
One amendment would curtail the use of terms such as ‘steak’, ‘sausage’, ‘escalope’, ‘burger’ or ‘hamburger’ on products that do not exclusively contain meat.
The IFA has written to MEPs urging them to accept both amendments to protect Irish consumers and the agricultural industry here.
IFA President Tim Cullinan said yesterday that dairy products or plant-based meat branded with ‘real’ meat descriptions is “deliberately misleading to our consumers and undermines our industry.”
What do you think: Should vegetarian foods be allowed use words like ‘steak’ and ‘burger’?
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