Eugene McCague was something of an outlier when he qualified as a solicitor in 1982. Why? He remained in Ireland. With opportunities in the recession-stricken economy few and far between, the vast bulk of his classmates packed their bags and moved abroad. McCague remained, but only because he wanted to specialise in insolvency. To an extent, his vast body of work since then has been a microcosm of the slaloming nature of the Irish economy since the early eighties. Back then, he toured the country, advising liquidators and receivers of companies that had formed that had formed the backbone of…

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