Attack on Kevin Lunney: Time for communities to call a halt

THE savagery of the capture and attack on Quinn Industrial Holdings executive Kevin Lunney has been brought home to us in his harrowing account broadcast by the BBC Spotlight programme on Tuesday evening.

In the interview, he recounted how he was abducted outside his home in Derrylin, Co Fermanagh, and later dumped in Co Cavan, after enduring hours of hideous torture and horrific abuse. Throughout his capture, armed men slashed with a knife, doused him with bleach and branded him.