There was a moment during the meteoric rise of Chris Doyle, CEO of Bauer Media Audio Ireland, when it all might have gone horribly wrong. For the first time, Doyle was sitting around a table with Denis O’Brien at a Communicorp board meeting. It was 2007, peak Celtic Tiger, and Doyle was the newly installed CEO of the radio station Spin 1038. He was 27 years old. In the words of another former CEO within the Communicorp business, the typical board meeting was “very, very tough. They took no prisoners at all. It was like The Wolf of Wall Street”.…

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