The last time I was due to talk to Alan Merriman was March 2020. We had to cancel our meeting at the last minute and switch to a telephone call as Ireland went into its first lockdown. The founder of Elkstone, a multi-family office operating in wealth management, venture capital and real estate, Merriman and Elkstone had been thriving before the pandemic. But then came Covid-19 arrived, causing businesses to freeze temporarily. A “huge intervention” was needed, Merriman told me back then, adding: “It needs to be done in a way that gets the money to the right places as…

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