Quinn Insurance in Administration

[Rossfan]

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/stabbed-tortured-and-doused-in-bleach-kevin-lunney-attack-the-latest-in-long-line-of-chilling-incidents-to-hit-quinn-firm-38512966.html

[seafoid]

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/core-of-what-was-once-quinns-vast-empire-has-seen-earnings-quadruple-since-being-sold-38512952.html

[Aaron Boone]

Derrylin is one long street to have a march on. Not as long as Cookstown mind.

[Cavan19]

Please quote the article in posts which are linked to articles behind paywalls.

[screenexile]

Please quote the article in posts which are linked to articles behind paywalls.

Eh?? Don't think they're behind paywalls... you just need a login

[Cavan19]

Please quote the article in posts which are linked to articles behind paywalls.

Eh?? Don't think they're behind paywalls... you just need a login

Yeah i see that now.

Either way its a pain in the hole.

[RedHand88]

This isn't reflecting on the Quinns well at all. The people who carried out this and other attacks are doing it for money. Either they're not being paid off or they are being paid to carry them out. There can be no doubt that paramilitaries are involved.

Who's paying these pipers?

Well they're either being paid or not being paid depending on which side they're on. Typical IRA modus operandi extort and victimise the very community they purport to protect.

Is that you Jamie Bryson?

[Owen Brannigan]

This isn't reflecting on the Quinns well at all. The people who carried out this and other attacks are doing it for money. Either they're not being paid off or they are being paid to carry them out. There can be no doubt that paramilitaries are involved.

Who's paying these pipers?

Well they're either being paid or not being paid depending on which side they're on. Typical IRA modus operandi extort and victimise the very community they purport to protect.

Is that you Jamie Bryson?

What he means is all paramilitaries extort and victimise the communities that they purport to protect and the IRA in whatever its current guise is no different. Ever wonder why majority SF represented areas rarely prosper when they were in power for over 10 years with full control of several ministries including the top posts?  Keep your people down, don't let them get comfortable, blame everyone else and then get their vote to keep it going. SF not alone in this strategy, the Labour Party in UK doing the same at moment to use Brexit to break the Tories.

[Owen Brannigan]

Hopefully the awful extreme brutality of this event will bring about an end to the disgusting campaign of intimidation.

Like that has worked in this country in the past.

[Owen Brannigan]

Just reading the details of the attack in the paper. Absolutely barbaric, fingernails torn off, stabbed, bleach poured over him. I'm maybe a bit naive to this but are these attacks being carried out by so called Sean Quinn supporters? What is the reasoning behind it all? Surely these new owners have safe guarded jobs and bringing prosperity to the area when it otherwise could be a wasteland.
Have the Quinn family spoken out against these attacks previously? The seriousness of the attacks would also lead you to think there is a degree of organisation behind them. It's not carried out by young lads if you know what I mean. Is paramilitary involvement suspected?

The Quinns spoke out about the attacks previously and I believe has done so again regarding this. And was quite clear that he was disgusted at it. While Kevin Lunney and Sean haven't seen eye to eye in recent years, he worked closely with him for 20 odd years prior and would have been very close with Kevin and the family. If it was done with some misguided attempt at vengeance for Sean, it was very wide of the mark and will have done more harm. Disgusting act that would make you wonder what people are capable of.

You have to say impartially that it takes a lot for people not to believe that deep in him somewhere, he's happy enough the people that he said stabbed him in the back and treated him like crap (to paraphrase) are getting tortured....now literally. He's made no secret he wants the business back.

People will obviously make their own decisions. But I think it's madness to think that he would get pleasure out of someone he's know for a lifetime getting treated like that. I think most people would be appalled by it. With regards to wanting the business back, that's true and I'm sure he's been working along quietly regarding that. He's smart enough to know this will have a negative effect on that process.

If the Quinn's have nothing to do with the campaign, they may know who is behind it but will know why it is happening.

[Carmen Stateside]

Owen's obsession with Sinn Fein continues (yawn) 

[Rossfan]

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/columnists/lunney-was-assaulted-quinn-is-not-the-victim-952090.html

[Angelo]

I think it's well accepted that it's ex provos involved in criminality and dissidents who are perpetrating these acts but they are just basically the thugs for hire.

What really interests me is the motives for it? Obviously they get paid for it and will get looked after for this campaign but who is behind it, who is really pulling the strings. For me, there is only one group of people with the motive for it but they would hardly be that stupid and desparate to undertake this barbaric course of action? I know the media have been pointing the finger at a well known criminal as the main man but I find it hard to see what he gains from it other than he is the hired muscle for someone higher up.

I'm utterly perplexed by it all.

[gortnaleck]

Could it be that the new regime has not the ability to come up with protection money. I imagine Seán could have access to whatever was needed but that now there is no place on the balance sheet for this transaction

[Main Street]

This is a long thread and there are many informed posters about this whole accounting and business scam which the ordinary punter has had to bear the costs of to the tune of a levy of €70m p/a, until eternity.
Is there any compelling argument not to consider the most obvious suspects here, as being the nr 1 (by a distance) who are behind the hiring of these vicious thugs?