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 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.

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

In April 2007, at the height of the madness, I felt the wrath of one of the most powerful figures in the country at the time.

Two further judgments, for a total $133m and for a total 72m Russian roubles (about €1m), have been obtained on consent against some members of businessman Sean Quinn's family and some of their spouses.

A conditional judgment for €445m is part of the settlement of the long and bitter litigation between the Quinn family and State-owned Irish Bank Resolution Corporation.

A settlement could be reached next week of the marathon case by Sean Quinn’s five adult children challenging the validity of securities provided by them for hundreds of millions of euro in loans advanced by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies.

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.

The case, initiated in 2011, is currently being heard by Mr Justice Garrett Simons and may last months.

A High Court judge will rule next week whether Sean Quinn’s children can pursue a key claim their father unduly influenced them to sign securities for loans of hundreds of millions by Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn group companies.

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.

A Dubai-based firm has failed to get a Supreme Court order aimed at preventing it being sued here over its acquisition of a multimillion-euro property in India from companies controlled by members of the family of businessman Sean Quinn.

Receivers appointed over the assets of members of businessman Seán Quinn’s family say their living expenses should first be paid from personal accounts but not also from accounts frozen four years ago.

Members of Sean Quinn’s family are opposing an application for court orders to stop them receiving any further living expenses out of accounts controlled by receivers appointed over assets linked to Quinn companies.

Consumers will be on the hook for the collapse of Quinn Insurance for close to another decade-and-a-half, despite already paying out more than €236m for its failure.

The family of businessman Seán Quinn want to amend their case against the State-owned IBRC to allege they were innocently unaware, when signing share pledges and guarantees as security for €2.34bn loans from Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies, that security was allegedly for the unlawful purpose of propping up the bank’s share price.

A judge has been asked by State-owned IBRC to direct that the Quinn family’s action aimed at avoiding liability for €2.34bn loans should open as soon as possible this year.

IBRC’s special liquidators have bought out its partner in the controversial joint-venture it established nearly three years ago to recover key Quinn family assets in Russia and Ukraine, for $34m (€31m).

The retreat by Liberty Insurance from the British market with the loss of hundreds of jobs here — is another sign of the troubled times facing the Irish insurance industry, experts have said. The company is one of the big six players in the Irish market.

A High Court judge has permitted the family of businessman Sean Quinn to proceed with claims in their forthcoming legal action that €2.34bn loans by Anglo Irish Bank to various Quinn companies were made for the unlawful purpose of propping up the bank’s share price.

The family of Sean Quinn will decide soon whether to appeal a decision in the case they are taking against IBRC and its special liquidator.

A court has dismissed an appeal by businessman Seán Quinn and members of his family over disclosure of thousands of documents for a conspiracy case being brought against them by Irish Bank Resolution Corporation.

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.

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

The former Quinn glass company in Co Fermanagh, which was renamed Encirc, has been sold to Spanish manufacturer Vidrala for almost €409m.

A deal has been agreed for the transfer of Quinn Insurance’s portfolio of UK and European legacy liabilities to a subsidiary of Bermuda-based Catalina Holdings.

Members of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn’s family are not entitled to better disclosure of documents and materials by a bank they are suing over the alleged unlawful issuing of €2.3bn in loans to family companies, a High Court judge ruled.

Operating profits at the former Quinn manufacturing group last year declined by 57% to €18.6m.

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.

The joint administrators of Quinn Insurance Limited (QIL) want the High Court to approve the transfer of 5,000 health policies to a subsidiary of one of the world’s biggest insurance providers Swiss Re.