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.

Sources have expressed confidence that the legal clash between the family of Seán Quinn and the former Anglo Irish Bank and now liquidated IBRC could be settled by the end of the year.

The family of businessman Seán Quinn are seeking mediation of their long and bitter dispute with State-owned IBRC over liability for loans of €2.34bn made by the former Anglo Irish Bank to Quinn companies.

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.

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.

A jury has been sworn in for the trial of former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick and former executives Pat Whelan and William McAteer.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn have received the go ahead to sue former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick for damages.

The family of bankrupt former billionaire Sean Quinn have today sought permission from the High Court to sue former Anglo Irish Bank Chairman Sean FitzPatrick for damages.

An application by members of the Quinn family to stop assets of Quinn companies being moved to Nama ignores the fact those assets have already been stripped by some family members, Irish Bank Resolution Corporation has claimed before the Commercial Court.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn plans to sue the former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm and 10 other former Anglo directors.

The family of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn has been given permission to sue former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm, here in Ireland.

The family of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn has been given permission to sue former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm in Ireland.

A journalist involved in the publication of the Anglo Tapes has said that the Quinn family had no role to play in the leaking of the material.

The liquidators of IBRC identified the entire Quinn Family and its advisers as potential sources of the leaked Anglo Tapes.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn intend to sue the Department of Finance and the Central Bank over allegedly conspiring with Anglo Irish Bank in advancing €2.34bn unlawful loans to Quinn companies.

The family of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn will today take steps to keep alive their multimillion euro legal action against the former Anglo Irish Bank.

The family of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn has hinted at a possible legal challenge to the statutory stay in the IBRC Act, which has halted all existing proceedings against the former Anglo Irish Bank.

The wife and children of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn will begin their marathon legal battle against the former Anglo Irish Bank in April next year.

The costs of home, motor and commercial insurance are expected to carry extra levies for 15 more years as a result of the collapse of the Quinn empire.

Further details of the alleged asset stripping by the Quinn family have been spelled out before a judge who is deciding if he will continue to allow them each draw down an allowance of €2,000 a week.

Former Anglo Irish Bank chairman and chief executive Sean FitzPatrick is to go on trial accused of unlawfully helping to back a group of investors – including members of Sean Quinn's family – to buy shares in the financial institution in 2008.

Along with the 10 developers who were given money to invest in Anglo Irish Bank, six members of billionaire Seán Quinn’s family were earlier drafted in to support the scheme.

The children of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn are due back before the High Court today to see if they will be permitted to retain entitlement to monthly living expenses of €8,000 each.

The former Anglo Irish Bank has failed in its bid to get court orders requiring the family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn to provide security for the costs of discovering documents for the family’s legal challenge over liability for loans of €2.34bn.

The RTÉ board is in the firing line after Pat Rabbitte admitted his confidence in it was “shaken”.

The bringing of contempt proceedings against Sean Quinn and members of his family is an “abuse of process” and an attempt by former Anglo Irish Bank to destroy the Quinns’ credibility in advance of their own action against it, it has been claimed.

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”.

The family of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn yesterday won the first leg of a legal battle with Anglo Irish Bank.

Anglo Irish Bank unlawfully tried to prop up its share price by “shovelling” about €2.34bn loans into companies in the Quinn Group after learning in Sept 2007 of a “towering” Quinn shareholding in Anglo that could collapse the bank.

The Commercial Court has heard that the wife and children of businessman Sean Quinn were unaware that multimillion loans to the group were used to prop up Anglo Irish Bank's share price.

THERE must be many thousands of people who might wish they could avoid repaying debts by pleading that they were unduly influenced by their spouse to sign the bank documentation needed to get the cash in the first place.

The wife of businessman Sean Quinn has been ordered to repay a €3m debt to the former Anglo Irish Bank.

A court will tell Sean Quinn's wife today whether she has to repay €3m borrowed in her name from the former Anglo Irish Bank.

THE wife of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn is making “incredible” claims she does not have to repay a €3 million bank loan because she is a homemaker unduly influenced by her husband and regularly signed documents he put in front of her without reading them, the Commercial Court was told yesterday.

THE family of bankrupt businessman Sean Quinn are effectively making the “extraordinary” case they have no liability for loans of €2.3 billion advanced to support Anglo Irish Bank’s share price on grounds Mr Quinn and the bank were engaged in the “criminal offence” of market manipulation, the bank has told the Commercial Court.

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.

THE family of businessman Sean Quinn have said loans of €2.34 billion made by Anglo Irish Bank to various Quinn companies and Cypriot-registered companies are unenforceable because they were issued for “an illegal objective of market manipulation” — support of the Anglo share price.

Tom Savage has been appointed to lead an interim RTÉ Authority for the next six months, it emerged today.

A man was today cleared of the murder of teenager Arlene Arkinson more than 10 years ago.

A jury was today urged to acquit a man of murdering a schoolgirl who, it was claimed, may not be dead.