The High Court has granted Quinn Insurance and the administrators appointed to the group permission to retain the services of merchant bankers Macquarie Capital Europe Ltd to advise them in any prospective sale of the group.

The High Court has approved the costs to date incurred by the two joint administrators appointed the to run the Quinn Insurance group.

Public relations firm Gibney Communications has won the lucrative contract to handle corporate and public affairs for Ulster Bank and its First Active subsidiary.

Ita Gibney, founder and managing director of public relations firm Gibney Communications, talks to David Clerkin.