Profile Richie Boucher: Banks for the memories

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Age:58

Appearance: tough-talking bank executive

Newsworthiness: Bank of Ireland’s final set of financial results under his tenure are released on Friday morning

Mike Soden, who spent a brief period as chief executive of Bank of Ireland, is fond of repeating an anecdote about the bank’s history to illustrate how this country suffered an economic collapse. It took Bank of Ireland more than 200 years to build up a €100 billion balance sheet ...