A decade of decadence, disaster and deliverance

I was at the helm of The Sunday Business Post for ten years, during an amazingly turbulent era like no other in Irish history

The ten years during which I edited The Sunday Business Post, between 2004 and 2014, spanned the extraordinary rise and rise of the Irish economic rollercoaster, followed by the most rapid, frightening and prolonged decline any of us have ever seen.

The latter years, in particular, offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to report on the extraordinary unfolding story of an economic implosion, with a direct impact on Business Post readers, be they businesspeople, employees ...