Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has met the directors of Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH), including Kevin Lunney, and pledged: “Law and order must, and will, prevail, in all parts of the country.”

A convicted criminal considered a key suspect in the kidnapping and torture of Kevin Lunney has died during a police raid in England.

Directors of Quinn Industrial Holdings say they have called on Garda Commissioner Drew Harris for the robust policing of the region and the establishment of a dedicated special cross border task force.

Facebook failed to take down posts targeting senior Quinn Industrial Holdings officials prior to last month’s kidnap and attack on company executive Kevin Lunney, an Oireachtas Committee has heard.

Gardaí are investigating after two men were allegedly assaulted in Co Cavan yesterday.

Police in London are appealing for help in tracing three missing children who might be travelling in Ireland.

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.

A €100m repayment by the administrators of Quinn Insurance Ltd to the State-backed Insurance Compensation Fund, from which €1.158bn has been drawn down to date to meet claims of policy holders, has been approved by the High Court.