Property chief Sweeney gets €2 million share payout since taking job in 2017

The head of the country’s biggest private apartment rental company has been awarded more than €2 million in shares.

Margaret Sweeney, who took the helm of Irish Residential Estates Reit, or Ires, in late 2017, was awarded options over 1.3 million shares in the company last week at an exercise price of €1.71. With the share price of the company exceeding that level last week she would be able to cash them in ...