Sean Quinn

Ukraine war pushes IBRC unit into loss

A subsidiary of state-controlled Irish Bank Resolution Corporation swung to a loss last year due to the “ongoing hostilities in Ukraine” and its inability to recover debts.

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IBRC liquidator sells former Quinn hotel in Nottingham for £11.9m after ‘significant interest’

State-controlled Irish Bank Resolution Corporation has sold a Nottingham hotel for about £11.9m (€13.5m) in a deal that attracted “significant interest” from UK investors.

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Gardaí search home of long-standing Seán Quinn supporter over alleged campaign of intimidation

The home of a prominent supporter of former billionaire Seán Quinn has been searched by gardaí investigating attacks on his former businesses and an alleged campaign of intimidation.

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Former Quinn-owned Hilton Prague hotel poised for return to profit

The Hilton Prague hotel – once a jewel in the Quinn family empire and which is now effectively controlled by the State – is expected to have returned to profitability in 2022 as the effects of the Covid pandemic waned.

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Review of the Year – the heroes and villains of 2022

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I wouldn’t be where I am without Seán Quinn, says Leona Maguire

Leona Maguire insists she will not “go down the rabbit hole” of chasing length at any cost as she bids to join Ireland’s pantheon of Major winners in 2023.

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Letters to the Editor Opinion Heads-up from the ATM left me empty-handed — and thirsty

Sir — Maia Dunphy, in her article on pensions in last week’s Sunday Independent, writes that “money may not be able to buy you happiness, but it is very handy to pay for other things”.

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Google is still the judge, deciding which Seán Quinn articles can stay online

Over the last decade, there have been thousands of articles written about Seán Quinn and his family. Every angle has been covered – from trials and prison terms, to weddings and lifestyle issues.

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Fionnán Sheahan Opinion Say what you like about Clare Daly and Mick Wallace, at least they draw the line at showing ‘support’ for Quinns’ ‘difficulties’

Seán Quinn would have been better off going on The Late Late Show if he wanted an easy ride and no difficult questions put to him. He’d have sailed through and had the audience lapping it up.

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Declan Lynch Opinion Alan Dukes shot himself in the foot dissing Border folk in Seán Quinn documentary

Television is a treacherous medium. Norman Mailer wrote about his obsession with it, recalling the time he went on a talk show with Truman Capote, believing he had performed superbly, while Capote — by his own admission — had seemed a bit flat. What Mailer hadn’t realised is that while he was knocking it out of the park, for a few seconds the camera had been on Capote when Capote said of Jack Kerouac: “That’s not writing, that’s typing.”

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Brendan O’Connor Opinion It’s fitting that the person most damaged by Quinn Country was Alan Dukes

If an alien had landed in Ireland on Monday and stayed until Wednesday, it might have wondered what the hell was going on.

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Garda inquiry focuses on Seán Quinn’s role as €500,000-a-year consultant to former business empire

Gardaí are looking at Seán Quinn’s role as a €500,000-a-year consultant to his old businesses, as their investigation into a campaign of intimidation and violence intensifies.

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Letter of the Week Opinion Dangerous dog breeds that kill should be even more restricted

Sir — The attack on a child by a dog in Wexford is the most recent in a series of horrific incidents in the past few years.

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Quinn Country revelations: Gardaí to scrutinise ‘every word’ of RTÉ TV documentary for evidence

Gardaí are studying the content of the three-part documentary RTÉ series as they continue to pursue the paymaster behind a campaign of violence against directors of former Quinn firms.

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Justice Minister welcomes apology from former Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes over claim Border people are ‘more easily’ driven to violence

Justice Minister Heather Humphreys has welcomed an apology from former Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes for disparaging remarks he made about people who live on the Border.

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John Mulligan Opinion What happened to Sean Quinn’s empire, left scattered to the winds from Slieve Rushen to Russia and beyond?

Driving his Land Rover up and down the highways and byways of the Border region, Seán Quinn Sr appears to live the kind of life that many of us can only dream of.

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The simplicity of a mountain life contrasts with Seán Quinn’s greed

Some shows sound so implausible that you have to wonder if they simply started out as a joke before getting out of hand.

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All the what-ifs – Seán Quinn’s sad-eyed 20x20 cannot erase the taxpayers’ bill

Quinn Country, the three-part RTÉ programme on the rise and fall of Seán Quinn, has reminded people of the extraordinary story behind one of Ireland’s most successful and most costly business figures.

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Liam Collins Opinion Alan Dukes’ comment on people from the Border reveals a particularly Fine Gael partitionist mentality

Former Fine Gael leader Alan Dukes has rather crudely evoked the Troubles to speculate that people living along the Border are “more easily” prone to violence, a tendency that is “in their blood”.

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Letters to the Editor Opinion It’s right to acknowledge how church was a force for good

John Daly’s article (‘Vatican Pimpernel reminds us that not all priests are bad’, Irish Independent, November 28) was a long-overdue acknowledgment of the good work that has been done by the Catholic Church in making Ireland what it is today – a modern and prosperous country.

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Quinn shareholders split €1.5m payoff as betting profits soar

QuinnBet, the online gambling company controlled by wider members of the Quinn family, paid a near €1.7m dividend last year as it made a €2.2m profit.

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Quinn Country: The rise and fall of Seán Quinn in his own words

After being postponed for a year, RTÉ will tonight finally broadcast the first instalment of a major documentary series focusing on the rise and fall of former billionaire Seán Quinn.

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Value of Aoife Quinn’s former Nottingham hotel jumps to £10.88m as IBRC prepares for sale

The value of a Nottingham hotel controlled by the State-controlled Irish Bank Resolution Corporation (IBRC) has jumped by 28pc to £10.88m (€12.41m) ahead of a potential sale.

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Buswells, the country hotel next to the Dáil and home to mid-level political intrigue, is up for sale at €22m

Often described as "the third House of the Oireachtas”’, Buswells Hotel in Dublin is more like the waiting room for Leinster House than a powerhouse of politics.

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Huge fine draws a line under AIB’s €330m tracker saga

The tracker mortgage scandal has dragged on for so long that it’s easy to forget about how and when it all started. But also, how it unfolded.

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Up for the match – Plans to replace Quinn’s Pub with 50 apartments in Drumcondra blocked

The landmark Quinn’s pub in Drumcondra, popular with GAA fans heading to Croke Park over the years, has been saved from the wrecking ball.

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RTÉ shelves series on Quinn saga for a second time amid ongoing threat fears

RTÉ has shelved indefinitely plans to broadcast a major documentary series focusing on the rise and fall of former billionaire Sean Quinn.

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Quinn family’s old shopping centre reopens in Ukraine

A multi million euro shopping centre in Ukraine that was once owned by Seán Quinn’s children but recovered by the State to pay his debts, has re opened for business as civilian life resumes in the war-torn capital city.

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Two firms will today seek to prevent Seán Quinn from allegedly trespassing at Cavan quarry

THE High Court is to hear an application this afternoon by two companies seeking an injunction preventing former billionaire Seán Quinn from trespassing at a quarry in Co Cavan.

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Ex-billionaire Sean Quinn accused of trespassing in ‘misguided form of aggression’ as he appeals for access to land

Former billionaire Sean Quinn says he needs to use a road which two companies claim he is trespassing on so he can visit a prospective wind farm site.