* October 6 – Niall Quinn, Irish footballer

Former player Niall Quinn led the takeover of the club in 2006, and spent six more years at the club in the roles of manager, chairman and Director of International Development

Following the club's relegation, it was taken over by the Irish Drumaville Consortium, headed by ex-player Niall Quinn, who appointed former Manchester United captain Roy Keane as the new manager.

On 20 February 2012, Niall Quinn left the club with immediate effect.

In late 2006, it was rumoured that Reid would be returning to Sunderland as Director of Football under new chairman Niall Quinn, who had played under Reid at Manchester City and Sunderland, but this appointment never happened.

Bob Quinn is a maverick film director who produced many documentaries and fiction films through the Irish language on limited budgets, including the first Irish-language feature film Poitín starring Niall Tóibín, Cyril Cusack and Donal McCann.

It has had several famous owners, for example Niall Quinn.

Sunderland's manager Peter Reid had been under-fire throughout pre-season for his failure to buy a big-name striker as a long-term replacement for the ageing Niall Quinn.

It was clear by Sunderland's tactics that Reid expected Flo to slot into the role of veteran Niall Quinn ( who retired from playing in November ) as a tall target-man for long-balls.

Niall John Quinn () honorary MBE ( born 6 October 1966 in Dublin, Ireland ) is a former professional footballer, and the ex-chairman of Sunderland A. F. C .. Quinn continued as Sunderland's director responsible for international development until he stepped down in February 2012.

Niall Quinn played Gaelic football for Robert Emmets GAC in Perrystown, Dublin 12 .< ref >

Bell has been inducted into the Manchester City FC hall of fame along with Billy Meredith, Tommy Johnson, Sam Cowan, Eric Brook, Fred Tilson, Frank Swift, Peter Doherty, Roy Clarke, Bert Trautmann, Ken Barnes, Roy Paul, Alan Oakes, Neil Young, Mike Summerbee, Tony Book, Francis Lee, Joe Corrigan, Paul Lake and Niall Quinn.

With Phillips having been in and out of the Aston Villa team during the second half of the 2005 – 06 season there were gathering rumours of a possible return to Sunderland with the recent takeover and management of the Wearside club by his former strike-partner Niall Quinn.

In April 2006 the England Team accompanied football legends John Barnes and Niall Quinn to a tournament in Pattaya, Thailand organized by the Thai Footvolley Federation.

* 27 July 2006 – A consortium led by Niall Quinn takes full control of Sunderland after previously buying out the former chairman Bob Murray.

Guest players that night included former Republic of Ireland international soccer Niall Quinn and horse racing jockey Johnny Murtagh.

With the penalties tied at 4-4 Niall Quinn took the final penalty which was saved by goalkeeper Tadgh Murphy.

With McCarthy dismissed towards the end of the 2005 – 06 season, new chairman and former team-mate Niall Quinn agreed to take the reins, however, decided to leave Wright out of the opening games of the 2006 – 07 season, instead preferring midfielder Rory Delap for the role.

In 2006 former player Niall Quinn made an offer for the club, backed by a consortium of Irish businessmen.

Cunningham signed for Sunderland on 19 July with Sunderland chairman Niall Quinn praising his leadership qualities.

Many felt that he and fellow striker Niall Quinn were too similar to play in a system that didn't feed strikers effectively and Rösler clearly became unhappy.

Kinkladze's first goal for the club occurred in a 1 – 0 win against Aston Villa, following a one-two with Niall Quinn.

The funeral congregation included politicians such as Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte, his predecessor Ruairi Quinn, party front-bencher Joan Burton ; Sinn Féin TD Seán Crowe and councillor Larry O ' Toole ; ex-Workers ' Party leader Tomás Mac Giolla and former Fianna Fáil MEP Niall Andrews.

Further excavations were carried out under Niall Sharples, which added to an understanding of the site and repaired damage caused in part by the large number of visitors.

Harvard historian Niall Ferguson points out that Florence and Venice, as well as several other Italian city-states, played a crucial innovative role in world financial developments, devising the main instruments and practices of banking and the emergence of new forms of social and economic organization.

A plan is hatched, in which they manipulate the figurehead spymaster Abdel Omerna to kill Pedron Niall, after convincing him that Niall's age and caution are slowing the justice of the Light and the Children's role in carrying it out.

A similar account has been presented by Niall Ferguson, who wrote: " Whole villages were wiped out, men beaten to death, women raped and mutilated, babies bayoneted.

The Players perform twice a week, Wednesday and Sunday, usually with a combination of six out of the seven regulars, although occasionally a guest performer will appear such as Niall Ashdown, Marcus Brigstocke, Stephen Frost, Eddie Izzard, Greg Proops, Steve Steen and Phill Jupitus.

The comments were reported in the Irish and international media ; however, both Tyaransen and Hot Press editor Niall Stokes, as well as Tiernan himself, defended them as being taken out of context.

The table below sets out the various surnames derived from Niall

She wanted Brión to succeed Eochaid but upon his death, war broke out with her stepson Niall Noigiallach ( d. 405 ).

His byname Gulban derives from Benn Gulban ( the mountain of Benbulban ) in Co. Sligo, from which center the sons of Niall set out upon their conquest of the north.

He also convinced Niall to send Whitecloaks to the Two Rivers, hoping it would draw Rand out.

By then, his 20 goals for the Republic had made him the national side's all time leading goalscorer-a record which would be broken 10 years later by Niall Quinn, who was in the early stages of his own international career when Stapleton bowed out of the international scene.

Diarmait in particular was a serious threat ; allied with Niall mac Eochada, King of Ulster, he installed his son Murchad as ruler of Dublin in 1052, driving out Donnchad's brother-in-law and ally Echmarcach mac Ragnaill.

After Niall O ' Brien and Neil Dexter put on 13 for the first wicket for Kent, Rasel and Shahadat Hossain dug out two wickets each, as Kent lost four wickets for two runs.

In their opening match of the tournament, Ireland defeated Bangladesh by four wickets and knocked them out of the tournament with Kevin and Niall O ' Brien making quick runs to put Ireland back on track after their run chase wavered.

* Niall McMahon ( Ladrannaibh, or the bandit ), ( early 12th century )

Pelias ( Douglas Wilmer ), under the protection of the god Zeus ( Niall MacGinnis ), usurps the throne of Thessaly by storming the palace of King Aristo and killing him ; but learns a prophecy that he will be overthrown by a child of Aristo wearing one sandal.

Niall Garbh was incensed at the elevation of his cousin Hugh Roe ( Red Hugh ) to the chieftainship in 1592, was further alienated when the latter deprived him of his castle of Lifford, and a bitter feud between the two O ' Donnells was the result.

But in 1601 he quarrelled with the lord deputy, who, though willing to establish Niall Garve in the lordship of Tyrconnell, would not permit him to enforce his supremacy over Cahir O ' Doherty in Inishowen.

As a result, King James I of England granted some lands to Niall Garve, but raised Rory to the peerage as Rory O ' Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and also granted him the territorial Lordship of Tyrconnell.

Niall has word sent to him that he is to go to Amador but Valda returns to the Fortress of the Light and begins to plot with the High Inquisitor of the Children of the Light Rhadam Asunawa to kill Pedron Niall.

After Omerna kills Niall, Valda, accompanied by Asunawa, enters and kills Omerna, a set up that allows him to become the Lord Captain Commander of The Children of the Light.

Hippolytus swore that he would not reveal the nurse as a source of information – even after Phaedra killed herself and falsely accused him of raping her in a suicide note, which Niall read.

Nuala married Niall Garve O ' Donnell ( Irish: Niall Garbh O Dómhnaill ) in 1592 ; when he sided with the English during the Nine Years War, she abandoned him and subsequently joined Rudhraighe on the Flight of the Earls with her daughter, Grania.

Through him the MacNeils of Barra also naturally claim descent from the legendary Niall of the Nine Hostages.

And they all went to Ath-na-righ, against William Burk, Mac Feorais, and the other Foreigners of Connacht ; and a battle was fought between them at the door of the town, and the Gaeidhel were defeated there, and Feidlilimidh O ' Conchobhair, king of Connacht, and undisputed heir presumptive to the sovereignty of Erinn, was slain there, and Tadhg O ' Cellaigh, king of Uí-Maine, and twenty-eight persons entitled to the sovereignty of Uí-Maine, fell there along with him ; and Maghnus, son of Domhnall O ' Conchobhair, tanist of Connacht ; and Art O ' hEghra, king of Luighne ; and Maelechlainn Carrach O ' Dubhda and Muirchertach, son of Conchobhar O ' Dubhda ; and Conchobhar Og O ' Dubhda ; and Diarmaid Mac Diarmada, who was fit to be king of Magh-Luirg ; and Muirchertach, son of Taichlech Mac Diarmada ; and Muirchertach, son of Diarmaid, son of Ferghal ; and Maelechlainn Og Mac Maghnusa ; and John, son of Murchadh O ' Madadhain ; and Domhnall, son of Aedh O ' Concennainn, king of Uí-Diarmada, and his brother Muirchertach along with him ; and Murchadh O ' Madadhain ; and Domhnall O ' Baighill ; and Donnchadh O ' Maelmhuaidh, together with his people ; and the son of Murchadh Mac Mathghamhna, and one hundred of his people along with him ; and Niall Sinnach, king of Feara-Tethbha, with his people ; and Ferghal, son of John Gallda O ' Ferghail ; and William, son of Aedh Og O ' Ferghail ; and Thomas, son of Amhlaibh O ' Ferghail.

Lóegaire say that his father Niall would not have allowed him to convert.

According to the saga " The Adventures of the Sons of Eochaid Mugmedon ", he is said to have had two wives: Mongfind, daughter of Fidach, who bore him four sons, Brion, Ailill, Fiachrae and Fergus ; and Cairenn Chasdub, daughter of Sachell Balb, king of the Saxons, who bore him his most famous son, Niall.

Cenél Máiné lay in the south-west portion of the kingdom of Tethbae – on the east shore of Lough Ree – and when it was taken over by the Uí Néill, its ruler's ancestor was given a pedigree making him a son of Niall.

Legend has it that St. Patrick struck the shield of Conall, son of King Niall of the Nine Hostages, with his crosier, called Bachall Isa ( the staff of Jesus ) inscribing thereon a sign of the cross and told him the same, and baptized him.

He married Judy Kenny in 1957, has five children and six grandchildren ( grandchildren's names are Niall ( named after him ), Ella, Jack, Billy, Francie and Barry ) -

His nephew, Niall Collins was elected to succeed him, maintaining the family's continuous occupation of a seat in that constituency since the 1948 general election.