Irish financier played Trump card in NY

Quinlan job for president-elect’s nephew

Blaine Trump was almost as high profile in society columns as former brother-in-law Donald Picture: Getty

Donald Trump’s nephew was an employee of Derek Quinlan, Ireland’s biggest financier during the Celtic Tiger years, it has emerged.

Christopher Trump-Retchin was part of the financier’s Quinlan Private investment team in Manhattan during the final years of the boom.

He was part of a team that raised over $400 million in the United States to acquire European property.

The nephew by marriage of the president-elect of the United States was based in ...