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.