Former Google boss steps down as Liberty director

News follows loss of insurer’s finance chief to rival company

John Herlihy

John Herlihy, the former boss of Google in Ireland, has stepped down as a director of Liberty Insurance, one of the country’s largest genera insurance companies.

Herlihy resigned as a non-executive director of the Irish arm of the company in April, according to a filing with the Companies Registration Office in recent days.

Herlihy’s was one of a number of appointments to the Liberty board when it acquired the bulk of the former ...