The Sunday Interview: Bryan Bourke - Managing partner of William Fry

Law firm William Fry lost seven junior partners to rival firms earlier this year. Managing partner Bryan Bourke believes it was a sign of a strong economy and growing international influence in Ireland

CV Bryan Bourke

Role: managing partner of William Fry

Age:53 and sad about it

Family: husband to Martina and father of three teenagers

Lives: Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

He was just home from a family holiday in Sardinia when the news slid across Bryan Bourke’s desk.

Seven partners were leaving William Fry, in an exodus that became widely known as ‘Frytanic’.

The blue-chip law firm hovers just outside Ireland’s equivalent of the magic circle ...