An amateur boxer from Northern Ireland has admitted assaulting two senior Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executives just days after his father lost his job in the company.
Fermanagh man Bernard McGovern (24) appeared in court yesterday morning where he pleaded guilty to the assaults outside a Cavan filling station in February 2019.
The victims of the attack were Kevin Lunney, chief operating officer of the company formerly known as QIH, and chief financial officer Dara O Reilly.
Mr Lunney was abducted outside his home and badly assaulted in a separate and unrelated incident seven months later, in which McGovern had no involvement.
The two victims are senior executives at Mannok, previously known as Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) and once owned by businessman Sean Quinn.
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An amateur boxer has admitted assaulting two senior Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) executives just days after his father lost his job in the company.
Fermanagh man Bernard McGovern (24) appeared in court this morning where he pleaded guilty to the assaults outside a Cavan filling station in February 2019.
The victims of the attack were Kevin Lunney, chief operating officer of the company formerly known as QIH, and chief financial officer Dara O’Reilly.
Mr Lunney was abducted outside his home and badly assaulted in a separate and unrelated incident seven months later, in which McGovern had no involvement.
The two victims are senior executives at Mannok, previously known as Quinn Industrial Holdings (QIH) and once owned by businessman Sean Quinn.
Man pleads guilty to assaulting two QIH directors
Updated / Thursday, 11 Mar 2021
20:17
North-East Correspondent
A medal-winning Fermanagh boxer has pleaded guilty to assaulting two senior businessmen at a local filling station two years ago.
James Bernard McGovern, 24, appeared before Judge John Aylmer at Cavan Circuit Court today.
McGovern was charged with attacking Kevin Lunney and Dara O Reilly, causing them harm, at the Apple Green Service Station café at Rakeelan near Ballyconnell, Co Cavan, on 1 February 2019.
Mr Lunney is the chief operating officer at Mannok, formely Quinn Industrial Holdings, which has manufacturing operations on both sides of the border.
Mr O Reilly is chief financial officer at the same enterprise.