Quinn staff have offered their 'unequivocal support' for the 'highly respected' executive and his family.

A citizen of this fair Republic need not be afflicted with Richard Nixon grade paranoia — or cynicism — to imagine that though we present hurling as our national game that the truth lies elsewhere.

Construction products and packing group, Quinn Industrial Holdings is seeking to expand into the ready-mix concrete market to tap the building boom in the Dublin area and is open to making acquisitions if opportunities arise.

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.

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.

Two former directors of Quinn Insurance Ltd (QIL) have lost a High Court challenge to a Central Bank inquiry into whether they participated in regulatory breaches before the firm collapsed.

Seeking an injunction requiring Facebook to remove one of its pages is like taking legal action against a brick wall holding up an advertising poster, the High Court has heard.

Quinn Industrial Holdings Limited – QIHL — the packaging and construction products group to which founder and former tycoon Seán Quinn returned to work over a year ago — said profits, sales and jobs had all increased as it planned further significant investments in its operations.

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 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

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.

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.

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

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.

The trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank executives has heard businessman Sean Quinn admitted to the financial regulator that he had been greedy in building up a stake in the 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.

Bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn told a High Court judge he was “a simple farmer’s son”.

Bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn yesterday told the High Court he was “a simple farmer’s son”.

ANGLO IRISH BANK is to seek court orders requiring the wife and children of businessman Sean Quinn to provide security for the costs of the potential “mammoth” discovery of bank documents in the family’s action arguing they have no liability for repayment of €2.3 billion loans made to various Quinn companies.

BUSINESSMAN Sean Quinn has been joined as a third party by his wife and children to the court action in which they allege €2.34 billion loans by Anglo Irish Bank to various Quinn companies are unenforceable because they were issued for the “illegal objective” of supporting the bank’s share price.

NCB Stockbrokers made an after-tax loss of €77,000 last year, compared to a profit of €615,000 in 2008.

The Quinn group has announced that it is to consider selling Quinn Insurance.

THE state-owned Anglo Irish Bank is still in talks with the regulator with a view to buying the entire Quinn Group.

Quinn Group has hired Talbot Hughes McKillop LLP (THM) to provide financial restructuring services to the company.

The beleaguered Quinn Insurance firm will take on the Financial Regulator today in a crucial High Court hearing.

Talks between Anglo Irish Bank and the Financial Regulator about a possible takeover of the embattled Quinn Insurance firm continued tonight ahead of a crucial court hearing.

Talks aimed at saving the beleaguered Quinn Insurance firm will resume today as Anglo Irish Bank seeks to take it over ahead of an administration hearing in the High Court tomorrow.

Crunch negotiations between Anglo-Irish Bank officials and the Financial Regulator about a potential takeover of the beleaguered Quinn Insurance firm ended tonight without resolution.

State-owned Anglo Irish Bank was today expected to continue negotiations with the Financial Regulator to take over a beleaguered insurance firm at the heart of the Quinn Group.

HIGH-POWERED talks involving the Financial Regulator and top executives of Anglo Irish Bank are likely to continue through the weekend in an effort to prevent Quinn Insurance being put into administration.

State-owned Anglo Irish Bank tonight moved to strike a deal with the Financial Regulator to secure the takeover of Quinn Insurance.

The Quinn Group today rejected claims it was facing a €700m black hole and insisted its insurance wing needed only up to €150m to get back on a sure footing.

IN a week that was supposed to be all about the changing face of Ireland’s banking industry, the insurance sector – inadvertently – got in on the act to steal a little bit of unwanted thunder.

Jim Caldwell and Louise Hogan

Irish building products and insurance group Quinn is to buy the world-famous De Vere Belfry golf course, hotel and leisure complex near Birmingham.