Full coverage: Martin Naughton

Glen Dimplex founder Martin Naughton died last Friday aged 87 and his funeral took place on Thursday. His legacy extends far beyond the multinational he built out of Ireland when no one thought it possible.

Yvonne Burke is chief financial officer of Glen Dimplex, the international giant founded by industrialist Martin Naughton. She doesn’t see herself as strictly a finance person and has been at the heart of many big global deals, she tells Tom Lyons.

For decades, Citywest developer Davy Hickey delivered multi-million returns for its high-net investors. Now as it winds down, a shareholder war has broken out. In the first of a two-part series, we examine the history of the company and the genesis of the row.