‘When it comes to your team, hire for attitude and train for aptitude’

Each week, we profile one of Ireland’s corporate leaders, tracing their career to date and exploring the lessons they have learned along the way. This week, we meet Oonagh O’Hagan of Meagher’s Pharmacy

Oonagh O’Hagan, owner and managing director of the Meaghers Pharmacy chain. Picture: Fergal Phillips

Oonagh O’Hagan is owner and managing director of Meagher’s, the Dublin-based pharmacy group employing more than 120 people across eight outlets, a support centre and online retail operation. O’Hagan started the chain in 2001 with the acquisition of Meagher’s Pharmacy on Upper Baggot Street.

She is acting chair of the Preliminary Proceedings Committee at the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland and sits on the wholesale advisory board of United Drug Healthcare Group.

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