as a throwback to the era of Provisional IRA punishment beatings. They added that even in the context of those paramilitary attacks the beating and torture of Mr Lunney was on the upper end of the scale.
The attack is a serious escalation in the violence directed at senior executives now running some of the companies that were formerly part of the empire run by businessman Seán Quinn. Mr Lunney had been subjected to a violent attack earlier this year, and for more than five years now there has been serious intimidation directed against the group executives runningOne threat against executives, made in May of this year, warned a “permanent solution” would be found for one of them if certain business decisions taken by Quinn Industrial Holdings were not reversed.