Niall McGarry has built a lucrative internet media empire - but remains a man in a hurry

‘Things are constant, constant, constant because it only takes a second for someone to get ahead of you’

Niall McGarry: ‘It’s always good to reposition yourself’

Maximum Media’s Dublin office is what you might expect of a new media powerhouse. Rows of young employees hunch over laptops in a bright, warehouse-like space, and there’s not one suit in sight. A large canvas at the entrance shows staff celebrating Maximum’s inclusion in a recent Financial Times ranking of Europe’s fastest-growing businesses, which included just eight other Irish firms.

Beside the kitchen, above a bike bearing one of the company’s logos, ...