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Full coverage: Sean Quinn

From €21bn to closure: The final chapter of IBRC’s loan portfolio

IBRC's liquidators started with tens of thousands of loans with a face value of €21bn secured on assets around the world. Now, years of legal wrangling, international property sales, and headline-making borrowers have led to the final sale – and the end of an era in Irish banking.

Tom Lyons
19th Dec, 2025 - 3 min read

Aoife Quinn in tax row over “bogus” Russian earnings

Aoife Quinn is in a tax dispute with Revenue over monies drawn down from “bogus” employment contracts with three Russian companies in 2011 and 2012. The daughter of former billionaire Sean Quinn says the money was used in the family’s court battle with IBRC.

Francesca Comyn
18th Jun, 2025 - 4 min read

Israeli property investor buys a shopping centre in Kyiv formerly owned by Sean Quinn

Asset-stripping and then war stopped the sale of one of Ukraine's best known shopping centres Univermag Ukrainia by liquidators acting for the Irish state. Now a deal is finally almost done.

Tom Lyons
30th Apr, 2025 - 2 min read

Dividend rows and succession planning: Behind the scenes at QuinnBet

Born from the ashes of Sean Quinn's business empire, the family's online gambling business QuinnBet has proved a winner. But a fight is brewing with the group's trustee over multi-million euro dividends and the rights of the next generation.

Francesca Comyn
4th Mar, 2025 - 5 min read

The border palace at the heart of the old Quinn kingdom: Rewinding the week that was

The Slieve Russell Hotel was a physical manifestation of Sean Quinn's own grandiose ambition and of his unfettered loyalty to his locality. It sale marks the end of an era.

Ian Kehoe
27th Oct, 2024 - 5 min read

Five years in business: Five long reads that define The Currency

On September 25, 2019, we published the first of over 6,000 articles and podcasts to date. Here is what our members say makes us different.

Thomas Hubert
25th Sep, 2024 - 6 min read

Ian Kehoe: The team behind Mannok deserve acclaim, not abuse. Sean Quinn needs to stop hijacking history

Sean Quinn's former manufacturing business was last week sold to Turkish building materials group Çimsa. Within hours, he was retelling the same old tropes. Quinn needs to move on, not invoke Booker T Washington.

Ian Kehoe
31st Aug, 2024 - 4 min read

Mannok deal buys Turkey’s Çimsa a €330m foothold in British and Irish markets

Once part of the Quinn business empire, Fermanagh-based Mannok is set to join a business controlled by one of Turkey's wealthiest families – and return its US owners a comfortable exit.

Michael Cogley
29th Aug, 2024 - 6 min read

Sean Quinn junior launches legal salvo against share trustee and director of QuinnBet

Eoin O’Shea, an accountant, barrister and the share trustee of 82.5 per cent of the shares of QuinnBet, is being sued by Sean Quinn junior and his wife Karen.

Ian Kehoe
8th May, 2024 - 2 min read

Seán Gallagher eyes up bid for iconic Cavan hotel the Slieve Russell

Founded by former billionaire Seán Quinn, the Slieve Russell is one of the best-known hotels in the border region. Now a serial entrepreneur is preparing a bid for it.

Tom Lyons
17th Jan, 2024 - 2 min read
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