Goodman Uncovered: How I took on a corporate giant

It wasn’t the done thing to ask questions about Ireland’s most successful businessman, as Susan O’Keeffe discovered

If you’ve never been inside a slaughterhouse, then you can’t come even close to understanding the world Larry Goodman has inhabited – and made his home – for so many decades. It’s dirty and bloody and it takes no prisoners. The faint-hearted stay at the gate and drink tea.

In many ways, it’s the very nature of the work that has afforded Goodman the secrecy to build such an expansive and apparently lucrative ...