Economics has to dominate politics, and if it doesn’t, then the world suffers
He has been an evangelist for renewable energy for 30 years, but Eddie O’Connor says any hope of developing the sector here died with the Brexit result
CV Eddie O’Connor
Role: founder and chief executive of Mainstream Renewable Power
Age: 69
Lives: Clonskeagh, Dublin
Family: married to Hildegarde, two children (Lesley and Robert) and four grandchildren
Favourite book: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Favourite film: Blade Runner
Hobbies: golf, fishing, wine tasting, watching rugby matches, travelling
When Bloomberg recently ran a feature about the fact that solar power is now cheaper than coal, it highlighted two key companies in the ...
