At the edge of the International Mergers and Acquisitions Partnership (IMAP) gathering in Dublin, I caught up with Alan Walsh. It has been a decade since he regularly featured in the Irish newspapers while battling to turn around the sprawling conglomerate One51—a corporate drama involving some of the biggest names in Irish business. We spoke just after he had spent an hour on stage at the Marker Hotel, where I quizzed him on everything that had happened since. In the years following that turbulent period, his business has grown into IPL Schoeller, a plastic packaging group generating $1.4 billion in…

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