Profile: Sean Quinn: A king without a throne

The story of Quinn is Shakespearean

Like Banquo’s ghost, Sean Quinn continues to stalk the stage like an ominous apparition

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Age

:68

Appearance

:resilient

Newsworthiness

:five years after his empire was seized, the tycoon is now fighting to reclaim control of it

It’s now five years to the week since Sean Quinn lost control of his sprawling manufacturing empire. Five years since senior IBRC executives beckoned Quinn from Cavan to Dublin, while secretly dispatching a battalion of lawyers, accountants and receivers in the other direction.

His eponymous insurance business had been commandeered ...