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He presides over one of the biggest private companies in the country, with an estimated turnover of about €400 million, and is a millionaire several times over.

He presides over one of the biggest private companies in the country, with an estimated turnover of about €400 million, and is a millionaire several times over. He is a regular, albeit reluctant, fixture on Ireland’s rich list, but for most of the past 30 years Frank O’Kane has largely shunned the spotlight.

Newspaper archives are largely bereft of information on the man who runs Ireland’s leading mechanical and engineering contractor. That is ...