Sinn Féin is raising the prospect that this week's tapes of internal phone calls within Anglo Irish Bank may raise questions about the Sean Quinn affair.

The deal reached on scrapping the reviled promissory notes received a muted welcome last night with questions raised over how effective it would be in ridding the country of Anglo Irish Bank’s poisonous legacy.

This is the first time in the history of the State that a special liquidator has been appointed to manage the wind down of a company.

A wind farm formerly owned by Seán Quinn’s family has been targeted by arsonists in Co Fermanagh.

Further protests over the jailing of Seán Quinn are not being ruled out following a cross-border picket by supporters of the former billionaire businessman on both sides of the border yesterday.

Protesting workers at the Quinn Group have today demanded the release of Sean Quinn while the talks between his family and the former Anglo Irish Bank take place.

The Quinn family have been continually dishonest in their dealings with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and “lined their pockets” throughout the process, the bank’s chief executive, has claimed.

The Commercial Court has been told a legal action by the Quinn family against IBRC could last up to nine months.

A group that has raised €2m for the indebted Quinn family has said it is carrying out a service to the Irish taxpayer.

The head of children's charity Barnardos, Fergus Finlay, has hit out at reports that more than €2m has been donated by individuals and businesses to the Quinn family to help them fund their legal action against the former Anglo Irish Bank.

A group campaigning on behalf of the Quinn family in Cavan has said they've received a "substantial level" of financial donations from business people wanting to help fund Sean Quinn's family's legal action against the former Anglo Irish Bank.

Lawyers for the Quinn family have applied to stop representing them in their ongoing legal battle with the IBRC.

In an interview on RTÉ Radio last Saturday, Fr Brian D’Arcy defended his attendance at the recent rally in support of the Quinn family on the grounds of “compassion”, and compared it with his attendance at marches in the 1990s by victims of clerical and State-sponsored abuse.

The Taoiseach said there must be “clear divisions” between public representatives and matters before the court after comments by Fine Gael MEP Sean Kelly about bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn angered party colleagues.

Former GAA President Sean Kelly has praised the thousands of people who turned out in support of the Quinn family in Co. Cavan last night.

Around 5,000 people took to the streets of Ballyconnell in Co. Cavan last night, to show their support for the bankrupt businessman, Sean Quinn and his family.

Around 5000 people are staging a rally in Ballyconnell in Co Cavan this evening in support of the Quinn family.

A High Court judge has lashed out at the Quinn family's "deviousness" in attempting to put assets beyond the reach of the former Anglo Irish Bank.

THE High Court will decide later this week how to phrase a question it will ask the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to rule on in relation to the dispute between Anglo Irish Bank and Sean Quinn and his family.

THE European Court of Justice is being asked to rule on a dispute between Anglo Irish Bank and Sean Quinn’s family.

Anglo Irish Bank is asking the High Court for an order stopping Sean Quinn and his family from making changes to their international businesses.

MEMBERS of Sean Quinn’s family were yesterday restrained from making changes to their international businesses — worth an estimated €500 million — until September 9.

Workers at Quinn Insurance have asked the chairman of Anglo Irish Bank to put Sean Quinn's senior directors back on the board of the Quinn group to oversee the running of the company.