In July of this year, The New Yorker published a long read entitled “The Haves and the Have-Yachts”. The article gives an insight into the world of the super-rich where yachts are exclusive oases where business deals can be sealed in privacy. Lots of successful Irish businesspeople own boats, but there are few who are wealthy enough to make it into the super-yacht club. One of them is the low-key financier Paul Coulson, the chairman of the Ardagh Group, one of the world’s largest glass and metal packaging companies. Nicknamed “The Cooler” by his friends, Coulson’s most recent yacht, Icon,…

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