I wasn’t heading towards the hospitality industry. I thought I was probably heading for a legal career

Dermod Dwyer looks back at the eventful career path that led him to one of the capital’s most iconic buildings

Dermod Dwyer Pic: Fergal Phillips

CV: Dermod Dwyer

Role: executive chair of Convention Centre Dublin

Age:71

Lives: Greystones, Co Wicklow

Family: married to Helen, son Denis and late daughter Caroline

Favourite book: Adaptive Leadership and Leadership on the Line, both by Martin Linskey and Ronald Abadian Heifetz

Favourite film: The Post

Hobbies: cycling, golf, tennis

Dermod Dwyer peers over the balcony in the glass-walled atrium of the Convention Centre Dublin. Ahead of him, there is an impressive panoramic ...