Quinns seek to amend orders

A dispute between members of Seán Quinn’s family and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation over the scope of orders freezing and monitoring their accounts and assets has been adjourned at the High Court.

State-owned IBRC opposes the Quinns’ bid to have various assets, including their family homes, other properties, certain shareholdings and their family home in Co Cavan, excluded from orders granted in 2012 which froze their accounts and assets.

Mr Quinn’s five adult children, along with Stephen Kelly, Niall McPartland and Karen Woods, (respectively spouses of Aoife, Ciara and Sean Quinn Jr) want to vary the orders, saying they prevent them getting mortgages to buy family homes or loans for cars or holidays, and to live “normal” lives.