When Eddie O’Connor died last Saturday morning, Ireland lost one of its few real business visionaries and the global energy industry one of its few real revolutionaries. Eddie was the first person in Ireland to advocate for renewables and to warn of the dangers of continuing reliance on fossil fuels. There was a messianic quality to his urgings but often, he was listened to more intently in Europe than at home. There’s an understandable fascination with how he built two businesses that were each worth well in excess of €1 billion but, to some extent, this is to miss the…
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