The marathon case by Sean Quinn’s five adult children has been further adjourned by the High Court to tomorrow as settlement talks continue.

Settlement talks are underway in the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s five adult children denying liability for some €410m under guarantees of loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies.

Talks are underway in the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s children denying liability for some €415m under guarantees of loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies, the High Court has heard.

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.

Sean Quinn’s family used the Quinn group as their “personal bank” from which they extracted some €1.95bn to fund their personal lifestyles, property acquisition and significant losses, the High Court has been told.

The three US-based investment funds which own the construction supplies and packaging divisions of the old Quinn Group are set to spend another €10m on the business this year in a bid to support its long-term growth.

Stubbornness is a requisite attribute in anybody who achieves big things. Whether it be in politics, sport, business, the arts, or service to any ideals, the man or woman who refuses to yield, when common sense dictates otherwise, is imbued with a drive to succeed, often against the odds.

The Central Bank is to investigate suspected contraventions of insurance regulation by management of the former Quinn Insurance, which entered administration in 2010.

The family of businessman Seán Quinn cannot rely on alleged illegality by the former Anglo Irish Bank as part of their case denying liability for €2.34bn in loans to Quinn Group-related companies, the Supreme Court ruled.

A judge will rule later on an application by members of the family of businessman Sean Quinn for orders permitting them cross-examine Irish Bank Resolution Corporation special liquidator Kieran Wallace regarding claims they may be hiding up to €500m undisclosed assets from the bank.

International insurance giant AIG has confirmed its continued investment in the Irish market via the acquisition of the country’s second largest health insurer, Laya Healthcare.

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.

Another part of the empire built by businessman Seán Quinn has been sold in a deal believed to be worth in the region of €25m.

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.

An action by the family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn against the Central Bank, finance minister, and 10 former board members of Anglo Irish Bank for multimillion-euro damages over an alleged conspiracy to unlawfully shore up the share price of Anglo is to be fast-tracked by the Commercial Court.

The recent trial of three former Anglo executives has put a fresh context on the bank’s actions, says Investigative Correspondent Conor Ryan.

THE impact the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank has had on the country has been complex but the criminal trial that emerged from it was strangely simple.

The devastation wreaked on boom-to-bust Ireland by the collapse of Anglo was barely touched on in the landmark fraud trial.

The sequence of events leading up to the offences can be traced back to a meeting in a Navan hotel in September 2007 involving Ireland’s then richest man and two Anglo Irish Bank directors.

The State has finished its case in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives accused of illegal lending money for the purchase of the bank’s shares.

Gardaí have launched an investigation after a petrol-bomb ram raid on a business premises in Cork.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Sean FitzPatrick has said he was instructed to 'mend fences' with Sean Quinn after the Maple transaction.

The Quinn Group was “doing what they were told” by Anglo Irish Bank when unloading their 29% control of the bank in July 2008.

There is an old adage that says that “all political careers end in failure”.

An arson investigation has started into the latest attack on property once owned by former billionaire Seán Quinn.

A witness at the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives has been asked is there a touch of the British comedy 'Yes Minister' in the bank's dealings with the Financial Regulator in 2008.

A lending manager at the former Anglo Irish Bank has been today telling a court about her concerns about the debts built up by the Quinn Group in 2007.

A director at Anglo Irish Bank was left “speechless” after a representative from the financial regulator suggested the bank consider releasing the Quinn Group from a €250m guarantee.

A director at Anglo Irish Bank said that he was left speechless after a representative from the Financial Regulator's office suggested that the bank consider releasing the Quinn Group from a €250m guarantee.

Seán Quinn has claimed Anglo Irish Bank executives were aware the bank was in serious trouble in late 2007 at a time when they were willing to offer him hundreds of millions of euro to cover his investment in Anglo.

Seán Quinn has said he suspected Anglo “were doing a sweetheart deal” when it forced him to sell his stake in the bank.

Ireland’s one-time richest man Sean Quinn suspected the now-defunct Anglo Irish Bank made a sweetheart deal to unwind his secret shareholding in the lender, a court has been told.

The trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank directors has heard that the Financial Regulator fully supported the bank’s allegedly illegal plan to protect their share price.

The Anglo trial has been hearing evidence that the Financial Regulator was "four square" behind a deal to unwind former billionaire Sean Quinn's 29% stake in the bank.

A court has heard that businessman Sean Quinn "paid a very high price" for investing in Anglo Irish Bank.

Ireland’s once richest man Seán Quinn was facing regular demands for hundreds of millions of euro from late 2007 on in order to maintain his shareholding in Anglo Irish Bank.

The trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank directors has heard from its first witnesses including the former CEO of the Quinn Group.

The trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank directors has heard from its first witnesses including the former CEO of The Quinn Group.

A bus was set on fire outside three business premises which were once part of the Quinn Group.

An investigation is underway in Co Fermanagh after a truck was driven into a property owned by the former Quinn Group last night and set alight.

The family of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn is today looking for a High Court order to prevent the disposal of assets by IBRC as part of the bank’s liquidation.