In another article this morning I was writing about how Ireland is stuck in a kind of gerontocratic time-warp where our leaders are all people who came of age in the 1990s. Another such person is, of course, businessman and regular tribunal of enquiry participant, Denis O’Brien. O’Brien owes his wealth primarily to the decision of Michael Lowry to award him, in 1995, the country’s second mobile phone licence – a decision which has mired both of them in corruption investigations ever since.
O’Brien – another boomer – is now 67 years old. And having operated a business in the Carribean for a few decades, presumably has some experience of what national economic failure looks like. Here he is yesterday, warning that Ireland is headed for a train-wreck:
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