For a long time following the 1970s establishment of their Irish jewellery retail business – since grown into the Fields and Fraser Hart brands in Ireland and the UK – Anthony and Nicholas Obernik allowed just one non-family shareholder into the capital of their company Anthony Nicholas – then Davy stockbroker Kyran McLaughlin. This later changed with the inclusion of Noel Coyle, the group’s chief executive to this day. And, in January 2009, McLaughlin also ceded a small minority to Noel Murphy. Murphy was a business advisor to small and medium Irish companies and had joined the board of Anthony…

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