As Seán Quinn emerges debt-free after just three years, Seán McCárthaigh ponders on the future of the entrepreneur whose personal history mirrored the rise and fall of the economy

Seán Quinn, the former billionaire and head of the Quinn Group conglomerate, is to make his comeback in Irish business this week as a paid adviser to a new manufacturing business headed by a number of his former executives.

A business consortium headed by former Quinn Group executives is set to acquire certain assets of the remaining business.

Parts of the former Quinn Group are to be sold on to a consortium led by a local councillor.