Former billionaire tycoon Sean Quinn to conduct book signing in Letterkenny

Former billionaire Sean Quinn will be in Letterkenny on Sunday for a book signing.

Quinn will be at The Bookmark store in Letterkenny Shopping Centre from 1-3pm on Sunday.

‘In My Own Words’, published by Red Stripe Press, tells the remarkable story of Quinn’s rise and fall.

Once estimated to be worth up to €4.5 billion, Quinn gambled on contracts for difference shares in Anglo Irish Bank before its collapse.

The episode eventually led to Quinn losing control of his businesses formerly under the Quinn Group umbrella.

The now 77-year-old has recently made a series of allegations against some politicians, legal firms, civil servants and judges.

In a letter, he called the takeover of the Quinn Group ‘unconscionable’ and said the ‘vast majority’ of the local community were aware of the ‘betrayal, greed, fraud and disharmony’ brought into the area.

The Quinn Group, now known as Mannok, is currently run by a number of Mr Quinn's former closest aides, something that has led to heightened tensions in the border region.

A campaign of intimidation came to violent climax when director Kevin Lunney was kidnapped and tortured.

Earlier this year, Gardaí launched a criminal investigation into comments he made that that he would have preferred seeing two other directors at his former companies being ‘beaten up’ instead of Mr Lunney.