'Wouldn’t be out of place in a Tarantino movie': Lunney kidnappers challenge sentences for 'animalistic' torture and abduction

On 30 June 2026 the Court of Appeal heard submissions from three men who were found guilty in 2021 of kidnapping, false imprisonment and assaulting Kevin Lunney, a director of Quinn Industrial Holdings, at Drumbrade near Ballinagh, County Cavan. The defendants – Alan Harte, Alan O’Brien and Darren Redmond – are now seeking to have the custodial terms imposed on them reduced. The appeal is not over the convictions…