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Quinn Insurance staff staged marches in Dublin and Cavan today to highlight job fears among the 2,800 workers after the Financial Regulator’s decision to place Quinn Insurance into provisional administration.

In Dublin, over 2,000 staff staged a protest outside the Department of Finance, calling for the regulator to overturn his decision to stop accepting new business in the UK.