Four people suspected of plotting and assisting the abduction and attack on Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney last September are being questioned in a cross-border operation.

Four people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the abduction and attack on Quinn Industrial Holdings director Kevin Lunney in September.

Police in the North are being accused of dropping their guard in trying to stop attacks against Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) staff.

The three men had been refused bail at Virginia District Court earlier this month, but sought to have that decision overturned by bringing an application to the High Court in Dublin.

Four people were charged last month with the assault and false imprisonment of QIH director Kevin Lunney in Cavan and Fermanagh in September.

Four men are due to appear in court later this morning in connection with the abduction of Kevin Lunney.

Gardaí have made four further arrests in relation to the abduction of Kevin Lunney.

The Association of Catholic Priests received many messages from people applauding the organisation for coming out strongly in support of Co Cavan priest Fr Oliver O'Reilly after it emerged that businessman Sean Quinn complained about him to the Vatican.

Speaking on RTÉ's Today with Sean O'Rourke, Mr McCartin confirmed weekend reports that he had received threats that his “blood would be left on the walls” if he didn't take certain business decisions.

Mr D'Arcy has ignored calls to apologise to gardaí for the controversial comments.

The junior minister said the attack on Kevin Lunney should have been dealt with "sooner and better at that level" by senior gardaí.

“We did have sustained attacks against us, there were a number of incidents that were allowed go unchecked – the incitement to hatred at a public meeting, the posters defaming us and face to face threats.”

The visit comes in the wake of the assault of Kevin Lunney, which Mr Varadkar described as "barbaric".

A Minister of State has said that senior gardaí on the border let down directors at Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH).

Brendan Smith, a Fianna Fáil TD for Cavan-Monaghan, says a special police taskforce is needed for the border region.

Police believe computers, phones and documentation seized from a “safe house” used by the suspected orchestrator of the abduction of Kevin Lunney could have “significant potential” in unearthing evidence.

There are reports that the main suspect in the the kidnapping and torture of Kevin Lunney has died.

The Government has been accused of failing to deal with a serious lack of resources in border areas following the brutal attack on Quinn executive Kevin Lunney.

THE savagery of the capture and attack on Quinn Industrial Holdings executive Kevin Lunney has been brought home to us in his harrowing account broadcast by the BBC Spotlight programme on Tuesday evening.

He called for a cross border agency to tackle the gang bosses, who, he said, were turning the border county into a “no go area” for business and investors.

The brother of Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executive Kevin Lunney has told of his horror and anger at hearing details of the assault as revealed in a BBC interview on Tuesday night.

The CEO of Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH), Liam McCaffrey has said that he takes a degree of comfort from his meeting with Garda Commissioner Drew Harris on Tuesday.

A senior director at Quinn Industrial Holdings, John McCartan has said it is up to the authorities on both sides of the border to “live up to their responsibilities” to stop the campaign of intimidation against the company.

The Garda Representative Association's described the rise in violence in the border region as an attack on our democracy.

DURING the week, two executives of Quinn Industrial Holdings said the border region was “perilously close” to becoming lawless. During the Troubles, the region was pretty lawless, or so it appeared when novelist Colm Toibin met Seán Quinn in 1987.

John McCartin, one of the QIH directors, said the latest threat did not come as a surprise.

Threats against the directors of Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) are "being taken very seriously at the highest level", according to the company's CEO.

The latest threat to directors of Quinn Industrial Holdings did not come as a surprise according to director John McCartin.

The chief executive at Quinn Industrial Holdings, Liam McCaffrey, has said he and his fellow directors have been heartened by the support of customers, staff and the community following receipt of a second death threat this week.

The threat follows last month's abduction and torture of Quinn director Kevin Lunney, who is still recovering from his injuries.

A campaign of intimidation against executives at Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) has not ended despite public outrage and increased security following a savage attack on the company’s chief operations officer last month.

Deputy Martin compared the abduction and torture of Kevin Lunney, the Quinn Industrial Holdings director, to the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin, after which the Criminal Assets Bureau was set up.

The downgrading of a key garda station along the border between Cavan and Fermanagh has resulted in police being unable to provide an effective service, frontline gardaí have said.

Gardaí investigating the assault on Kevin Lunnery have announced that they have completed their search today in the Ballinagh area of Cavan.

Gardaí are cautioning that it could take some time before the results of their forensic examination of the suspected torture site of company executive Kevin Lunney become known.

A search is continuing in Co Cavan today at a site believed to be the location of a brutal assault on Quinn executive Kevin Lunney last week.

Gardaí are forensically examining a container in rural Co Cavan that may have been where company executive Kevin Lunney was beaten and tortured.

Quinn staff have offered their 'unequivocal support' for the 'highly respected' executive and his family.

The Taoiseach has branded the abduction and beating of businessman Kevin Lunney as “cowardly and brutal”.

“Any proper individual with a sense of morals would condemn that,” he told regional radio station Northern Sound.

Kevin Lunney, 50, was abducted and “brutally” beaten and dumped 22 miles away before he was rescued by a passerby who called emergency services.

A senior executive in the companies once owned by billionaire Sean Quinn sustained life-changing injuries when he was abducted and beaten by a masked gang, police have said.

On Brexit, the commissioner told members that he “entirely refuted” suggestions that there was no Garda planning for Brexit, saying there was a “high state of preparation”.

Construction products and packing group, Quinn Industrial Holdings is seeking to expand into the ready-mix concrete market to tap the building boom in the Dublin area and is open to making acquisitions if opportunities arise.

Two former senior executives with the Quinn group are "very reluctant" witnesses in the action by Sean Quinn's adult children disputing any liability under guarantees for loans of more than €415m, the High Court has been told.