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tuition and training at gyms.At one point Quinn, who endured two

days under cross-examination, was askedfor audited accounts from his Jersey-basedbusinesses, but said he didn’t know if hehad filed accounts. He was then asked toforward them on to the court.

In 2008 alone, Quinn pocketed morethan €500,000 from INE for seminars,figures which the judge said “are pre-posterous”.

On top of paying for representatives toattend Quinn’s pricey seminars in thesun, it also emerged that INE spentmore than €1.8million on security andsurveillance for him over a two-yearperiod, which Judge Edward Bannisterfound was “clearly excessive”.

“Whatever may have been the need forsome personal security, the expenditurewas made in very large part for the pur-poses of Mr Quinn, who appears to havehired what amounts to be a private armyat the sole expense of INE,” he said.

Most of the money, €1.3million, was

paid to Irish company Henrima and it’sDonegal-based director SeanHenderson. The company, which had itsaddress at exclusive Coliemore Road inDalkey, south Dublin, went into liquida-tion in 2009.

Quinn claimed he needed protectionas he was being pursued by the media,and in particular the Sunday World, andbecause his life was at risk. He alsoinsisted that he was terrified of a tigerkidnap.

The Sunday World had been investigat-ing Quinn’s extravagant lifestyle aftermany who attended his seminars com-plained that they got nothing in returnfor handing over huge sums.

We were also probing claims by formerfollower Maura Lawlor, who accused theman who some devotees believe to beJesus Christ, of sexual assault and bat-tery after she alleged she took part in“healing sex sessions” with the guru.The case is still listed as pending in theIrish courts.

INE’s second-biggest corporate client,next to Quinn, was the company X-Jet,owned by another Educoist and fellowboard member Josh Stewart.

EntourageStewart married another Quinn follow-

er Tina Fearon in Ireland earlier thisyear and his company has long attrib-utes its success to the former Dublinbutcher and his ‘business’ technologies.

Quinn regularly flies on the privatejets owned by X-Jet and flew in on oneof its planes to attend the case in theBritish Virgin Islands earlier this month.

His entourage included his SouthAfrican girlfriend Eve and Irish secre-tary Mary Power. The group stayed atthe exclusive Sugar Mill Resort on theisland.

Quinn then returned to Monte Carlowhere he is hosting his annual July sem-inar for followers.

During his evidence the mind guruinsisted that the security was needed.

“I was at risk of my life,” he said.But when he was quizzed about close

protection and surveillance carried outin London and Dublin on behalf of INE,he said he couldn’t answer who couldhave been the subject of such scrutiny.

He also said he had no idea why thecompany used Nairobi-based securityexperts.

Quinn insisted that he knew littleabout his finances or the finances ofINE. “I have nothing to do with cashwhatsoever,” he told the Judge.

Legal fees of €4 million were spent bythe company since 2006, including mas-sive amounts to Johnston Solicitors,based in Belfast, who have representedQuinn personally.

nicola.tallant@sundayworld.com

HIGH LIFE: Tony Quinn with girlfriend Eve

leaves guru’s dream in tatters

MAM’S MUSIC GOT GLEN UP TO SPEED

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■FOLK-ROCKER Glen Hansard learned the anxi-ety-lifting power of music from his mum listeningto Pat Boone’s 1962 hit song Speedy Gonzales.

She would sing along to the record as she cleanedthe house when she was feeling blue.

■Frames frontman Glen (42), revealed: “It’s theclassic lyrics ‘hey, come home, quit drinking’because that’s really where my mother’s cleaningstemmed from.

“It was always after a bout of my dad coming homelate and them having some kind of words that mamwould get straight into cleaning the house.”

■Glen, who won an Oscar for co-writing the balladFalling Slowly with Marketa Irglova in hit movieOnce, added: “She used music in the way that I imag-ine I approach music – it’s a healing thing.

“Music will always be salve for the soul.”

By FRANK DURHAM

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