David Power, whose funeral is taking place today, was a board colleague for the six years I chaired Paddy Power (Flutter) PLC between 2002-2008.  We had first met around the time he, Stewart Kenny and John Corcoran founded the company in 1988. Stewart had some mad notion that I could help with building the brand and John – whose brainchild it was that the three small Irish bookies should merge to take on the UK colonisers – and David seemed happy to allow Stewart to involve whomever he wished.  Those three men were in the throes of establishing an Irish…

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