Joe Walsh Tours, one of Ireland’s oldest travel agents and tour operators, highlighted a range of mitigating factors when it collapsed into liquidation at the start of March. The pandemic, of course, was the driving factor, decimating income and driving the previously profitable company into heavy losses. There were other related issues also, such as insurance. The company, founded in 1961, believed it would be in a position to claim for losses arising from its business interruption policy as a result of Covid. A potential white knight was prepared to invest on the basis of a successful claim but when…

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