The Sunday Interview: Peter Smyth

Broadlake’s Pete Smyth kitted out the company’s offices without the aid of a designer, buying secondhand couches and salvaged Croke Park benches – appropriate for a company whose watchword is prudence

Peter Smyrth. Picture: Feargal War
Peter Smyrth. Picture: Feargal War

Take a stroll through the offices of Pete Smyth’s investment firm, Broadlake – which is tucked in beside Cathal Brugha Barracks, and behind a row of unprepossessing apartments just off the main Rathmines Road in south Dublin – and you’ll find something that looks a little like one of those men’s sheds, where adult men get to set up the treehouse they were never allowed have as kids.

As I ...