Bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn and his son, Seán Jr, will today find out if they are to face further charges of contempt of court which could see both men put behind bars.

The former Anglo Irish Bank has told the Supreme Court it does not accept claims by the family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn that more than €430m assets in their international property group are gone and cannot be recovered by the bank.

Seán Quinn’s family had employment contracts with Russian companies providing for multimillion termination payouts, including €26m for his nephew, Peter Darragh Quinn, and almost €15m for his son, Seán Jr, it has been claimed.

Members of the family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn are to seek to have the receiver appointed over their assets and his lawyers discharged.

Another High Court judge dealing with an application in the Seán Quinn bankruptcy saga has issued another warning on the risks associated with contempt.

A daughter of Seán Quinn has said if her family could rectify its finances and free her brother from prison, they would do it immediately.

The Quinns of Cavan/Fermanagh may not like the comparisons drawn between themselves and the fictional Ewings of Dallas.

Thousands of supporters of the Quinn family, including Tyrone manager Mickey Harte, former Meath manager Seán Boylan and Father Brian D’Arcy, attended a rally in Co Cavan yesterday.

Seán Quinn has admitted he is likely to go to jail but defiantly claimed his family had “no choice” but to fight the actions of the former Anglo Irish Bank, which he said was “the most hated institution in the history of the State”.

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.

Two former senior executives of Anglo Irish Bank are to face criminal prosecution later this year after becoming the first individuals to be charged in the long-running investigation into financial irregularities at the zombie bank.

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.

Seán Quinn, once the richest man in Ireland, was this week found guilty of contempt of court. With the law no longer on his side, his fall from grace continues, writes Micheal Clifford

BANKRUPT businessman Seán Quinn, his son Seán, and nephew Peter have been given three weeks by a High Court judge to comply with orders aimed at reversing a “conspiracy” to move assets in the Quinn international property group beyond the reach of the former Anglo Irish Bank.

After delivering a man of the match performance in the European Cup final, Leinster’s Sean O’Brien turned his attention to deliveries of another kind — a trip home to the family farm in Ardristan, just outside Tullow, Co Carlow, to help his father with one of the family’s calving cows.

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 Sr and his nephew Peter Darragh Quinn were the prime movers of a “deliberate and deceptive” strategy to strip Quinn companies of valuable international property assets so as to put them out of the reach of Anglo Irish Bank, it was claimed in court yesterday.

A businessman from the North who built up a multi-million dollar empire in the US after lying about his past terrorist links was jailed today.