Nicola Tallent

He does, of course, say something different.

But that was the case.

So Quinn Industrial Holdings and Quinn's empire was built over a mountain in Cavan.

And he had started this business, basically, with a, you know, the rumour had it, with a shovel himself and had been, you know, out...

The mountain is quite extraordinary what's on it.

There's concrete companies, there's glass factories, there's windmills.

Quinn's empire was enormous and he was a very powerful individual within the community.

In the aftermath of him being removed from his own company, there was all sorts of shenanigans.

He was brought back in as a consultant, rows happened, etc.

But at a particular point in time, as things were pretty dirty,

There was firebomb attacks on the businesses he once owned.

There was all sorts of things happening in the mountain as regards stuff was going into the glass factory that was ruining the production of the glass and costing money to the companies that were making it.

There was, you know, tires being burst on very big vehicles.

there was at one point into the Quinn Insurance Company, a truck was driven in through the gates.

It was all this sort of intimidation going on in the background.

I suppose to sort of explain, after they all went into receivership, the receivers were then selling them on, I think a Spanish company came in and bought the glass factory.

Some of the previous...

directors along with Quinn one of whom had been Kevin Lunny were placed back in positions in some of the companies that were they were trying to buy it out themselves between a number of directors and Quinn was always in the background Quinn's always wanted to claw back his empire Yes and of course he did have support from the local community because Sean Quinn had become Ireland's richest man as you said but he hadn't moved to the south of Dublin and you know invested all his money in

Funny, years ago when I was looking into Dublin Jimmy, I remember there was one business he had and the address of it was in Eastwall, where all these men are from.

And we went to see the house.