Four people were charged last month with the assault and false imprisonment of QIH director Kevin Lunney in Cavan and Fermanagh in September.

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.

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