{"id":395263,"date":"2026-04-12T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395263\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:00:19","slug":"liberty-insurance-loses-case-against-eirgrid-over-former-tycoon-sean-quinns-power-plant-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/395263\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Insurance loses case against Eirgrid over former tycoon Sean Quinn\u2019s power plant project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Judge rejects insurer\u2019s bid to reclaim bond tied to former-billionaire\u2019s Louth energy venture\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former tycoon Sean Quinn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/81a7fb51-8cf4-462c-80d3-08b7a74c09cc.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former tycoon Sean Quinn<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Liberty Insurance has lost its \u20ac4.45m claim against Eirgrid over money it paid out on a bond related to a massive gas power plant proposed by former billionaire Sean Quinn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The insurance giant, which bought up the assets of Quinn Insurance in 2011, had taken the legal challenge against the State\u2019s electricity grid operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Judge rejects insurer\u2019s bid to reclaim bond tied to former-billionaire\u2019s Louth energy venture Former tycoon Sean Quinn Liberty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,6353,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-395263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}