In the early 1990s, two pioneering brothers at either end of their twenties set up a small waste business on a plot of land beside a petrol station along the N2 near Beauparc, Co Meath. From a standing start, the two-man team of Eamon and Noel Waters grew the small family operation serving the local area into Ireland’s largest waste management company under the now household name Panda. Three decades on, having grown the business into the sprawling Beauparc group, they sold it in a billion-euro deal. Many thought Eamon Waters had sold out of the waste industry altogether, and…

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