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Kingspan’s Murtagh makes €6.7m on share options

Kingspan chief executive Gene Murtagh made €6.7 million from the exercise of share options last week.

Murtagh spent just under €25,000 buying 187,826 shares which he then sold at a share price of €36, netting more than €6.7 million.

It comes just after American investment giant Blackrock spent nearly €60 million in pushing its holding in Kingspan to more than 4 per cent and is sitting on ...