Are any of these attacks attributed to dis-cement republicans?
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Quinn lovers who are former members of the provisional IRA
I’d say it could be a disaffected former member of the insuRAnce industry
Would Quinn have been paying a sub to the IRA back in the day? Any of the many RA stoollers on here know?
Actually had continuity minding his quarries in ballyconnell at one stage
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I had Shannonside on for a spell this morning - the Joe Finnegan show. At the outside you’d never mix Joe up with Paxman or any other forensic inquisitor. Up pops Sean Quinn.
This, remember, is the 50p a game 25 card playing former tycoon who’s boat sank in the banking tsunami of 2008. I’ll admit he’s considerably older but he performed poorly under Joe’s gentle promptings. The basic gripe he had was how he was ousted from his bidnasses 3.5 years ago (repeated as nauseum). He expressed suitable murmurings about current events and failed to understand why he was answering questions. Yeah Sean.
Current Operational head, John McCartin, scion of the Newtongore “empire” was less than fulsome in responsive comments on RTE1 with SoR an hour later. John knows what’s afoot but there isn’t a lot he can do except succumb and the main backing funders, 3 US hedgefunds, won’t be coalescing any time soon.
To be continued you might think. Bad business and bad forces acting abominably.
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He got a very bad doing in. All for what? These lads are fucking animals.
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The Hayshed man?
This captures it well. Time for the state to pour in gardai to sit on these apes. I’ve no doubt they’ve a good idea who they are so see how keen they are to play provo when they are getting a tax audit a year, regular checkpoints outside pubs, followed by plain clothes etc etc etc.
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Whats the story here? Extortion?
What if the culprits are resident in Fermanagh ?
Indeed. Several profitable enterprises there over the last 50 years.
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You’re getting warm. It wasn’t a follow-up to a row at a chip-van in Derrylin anyway.
Start with what can be done here. I’m sure many are not
Some fuckers alright.
There is a certain fluidity with these guys .
sunday september 22 2019
NEWS REVIEW
The border bandits: how the Quinn company intimidation turned bloody
The ’animal-like’ kidnapping of a businessman appears to be a crude attempt to strike fear into executives at companies once owned by Seán Quinn
John Mooney
September 22 2019, 12:01am, The Sunday Times
Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) has been targeted numerous times by criminals
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The gang that abducted the businessman Kevin Lunney as he drove to his home outside Derrylin in Co Fermanagh at 6.40pm last Tuesday had spent weeks planning the operation. First they ran him off the road using a BMW which had been stolen in Dublin last August. Lunney tried to save himself by locking the doors of his four-wheel drive, but the kidnappers smashed the windows and dragged him from the vehicle, which was set on fire, along with the stolen BMW.
They bound his wrists using cable ties and then bundled him into the boot of a second car, a black Audi saloon which immediately arrived on the scene.
Lunney, a top executive with Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH), was warned to keep his eyes closed and not look at his captors, but he managed to get a sense of his surroundings on two occasions.
The Audi travelled for about 40 minutes. It took him across the border and along the back roads of Cavan, passing through Swanlinbar, Killashandra and Bellananagh before it reached an unidentified farm where he was placed in a transport container, which smelled of horse manure.
It was here that he was beaten black and blue. “We have to break your legs,” one of his captors told him in a matter of fact way. “You have to take a beating.”
One of the businessman’s legs was broken in two places below the knee. His shoulder was also damaged. The gang told Lunney they were delivering a message both to him and the other board members of QIH: they were all to resign, or they would be killed. Lunney was warned not to contact the gardai, or say what had happened.
When the beating finished, the gang stripped the businessman to his underwear but then realised they had nothing to clean him with, in order to remove any traces of their DNA. One of the gang returned 30 minutes later with a towel soaked in bleach.
The gang then cut off his fingernails with a Stanley knife before he was blindfolded again and bundled into a transit van. Lunney was dumped on the side of a road near Cornafean where he was found by a passing farmer, who called an ambulance. The location was 22km away from Derrylin.
The gardai and the Police Service of Northern Ireland were already searching for Lunney by the time he was found. One of his neighbours had noticed a plume of smoke close to his house and found his vehicle on fire. Another had heard the commotion outside Lunney’s house and went to investigate.
The PSNI and the gardai initially feared Lunney had been “disappeared”: murdered and buried in an unmarked grave. On both sides of the border, detectives set about searching for the “dark-coloured car” used in the abduction but also began calling to the homes of known criminals and paramilitaries who had been linked to previous attacks on companies once owned by the former billionaire Seán Quinn. Most of the suspects were at home, though some were missing.
Lunney was dragged from his 4x4, bundled into the boot of a car and later subjected to a savage beatingQUINN INDUSTRIAL HOLDINGS
Responsibility for Lunney’s abduction has since been the subject of extensive conjecture, including suggestions that dissident republicans had been hired to intimidate the businessman and the board of QIH. The intelligence services suspect the involvement of an organised crime gang, some of whom may have tenuous connections to republicanism. The investigation is focused on who hired them and why.
Lunney’s kidnapping is a singular event. Until now, the attacks on Quinn’s former companies had mostly involved firebomb attacks on property, though threats were sometimes issued against executives and potential buyers.
The attacks started in 2012 and were falsely attributed to local people who were supposedly “outraged” at the treatment of Quinn by the banks. The incidents targeted those who either took control of his assets or expressed an interest in buying them. In 2013, Kevin Lagan, the chairman of the Lagan Group, received a death threat on the day his wife died, warning him not to purchase a roof-tile business once owned by Quinn.
The security services quickly established who was organising the violence, but obtaining proof has proven difficult. A number of people have been arrested and files have been sent to the director of public prosecutions. Among them were Cyril McGuinness, a convicted criminal from Fermanagh, and former employees of Quinn companies.
McGuinness is alleged to have been involved in helping the IRA bomb London in the 1990s. Two months after the IRA bombed Bishopsgate in April 1993, London’s Metropolitan Police issued a Photofit image of him, but McGuinness had already gone on the run. He has been convicted for the theft of heavy plant machinery worth €2.6m in Belgium and Holland between 2006 and 2008, and has a conviction for illegal dumping.
The campaign of terror temporarily stopped in 2014 when QIH, which had bought some of Quinn’s companies for €90m with the backing of the US investors Brigade Capital, Contrarian Capital and Silver Point Capital, assumed control of his cement and building materials factories. It hired Quinn himself as a consultant. Other companies once owned by Quinn continued to be targeted, however.
The relationship between QIH and Quinn eventually turned sour in 2016, and the two parted ways. Quinn subsequently criticised QIH and its directors, accusing them all of betrayal. “I was stabbed in the back,” he alleged at a meeting in Cavan last year.
The physical attacks against QIH were initially soft. Some involved sand being poured into the fuel tanks of machinery, and signs were put up warning local people about its directors.
Last May the board of QIH received an anonymous letter which threatened “a permanent solution” if they did not resign because they “facilitated the sale of the Quinn manufacturing businesses”. The gardai and PSNI suspect Lunney’s abduction was the author’s method of following through on the threat and that he is unlikely to stop there.
Smuggler Cyril McGuinness leaves the CCJCRISPIN RODWELL
Quinn has strongly condemned Lunney’s kidnapping. “My view is that you wouldn’t do that to a dog. That is not natural and it doesn’t make any sense to me,” he said last week in an interview with Shannonside, his local radio station.
“As far as I am concerned, I have moved on and am involved in other things. We don’t want to be labelled with this. This is the last thing we want. The people doing this are not doing this for the Quinns because they should know this is going to damage the Quinns,” he said.
For now, gardai and the PSNI are focused on protecting QIH and its staff from further attacks while seeking to gather enough evidence to prosecute those who they believe kidnapped Lunney, with a view to identifying their paymaster, according to security sources.
On Thursday, gardai from Cavan searched a number of properties in the county as part of their investigation. The sources say that detectives are pursuing definite lines of inquiry.
I was in Swanlinbar on Friday evening. 
Sinn Fein up to their old ways