Quinn Industrial Holdings


Quinn Industrial Holdings is a building products enterprise formerly owned by Seán Quinn. It was founded in 2014.
The company consists of the former Construction Industry Supply and Packaging businesses of the Quinn Group. These were acquired by a consortium of local businessmen from Aventas group in 2014 for €98m.
Seán Quinn was an advisor to the company until 2016.
In April 2019 the company was considering building its first ready-mix concrete facility in the Dublin area near the Naas roundabout.

Intimidation campaign

The company has been subject to an intimidation campaign since 2015. The intimidation initially included arson attacks and death threats. In February 2019 two directors of QIH were assaulted in a local shop.
In September 2019, Kevin Lunney, chief operating officer of QIH, was abducted from his home near Derrylin. His attackers tied him up, beat him, slashed him with a Stanley knife, tortured him with bleach, broke his leg and told him he would be killed. He was left half naked in a ditch on a remote country road near Drumcoghill, Co. Cavan. In October 2019 a new threat against directors in a letter sent to The Irish News, saying it was their "final warning" and that "we could have killed Kevin very easily".
Seán Quinn has condemned the intimidation campaign, including the Kevin Lunney attack. In an interview with Channel 4 News Seán Quinn said that he no longer wanted to regain control of his former businesses.
In the early hours of 15 February 2020 two vehicles belonging to a cousin of a QIH director were subject to an arson attack. The attack was captured on CCTV. Nobody was injured and damage was minimal.