Ireland to the World: We Are NOT Greece

Posted: May 13th, 2010 | Author: Laura Rich | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

For now, you’re not! Just got this defensive email today:

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Subject: Story idea: Ireland is Not Greece…

From: “xxxx” <xxxx@xxx.com>…Add to Contacts
To: “laura@recessionwire.com” <laura@recessionwire.com>

Laura,

Barry O’Leary, CEO of IDA Ireland, a government agency responsible for inward investment in Ireland, is available for an interview to discuss how Ireland is making difficult choices to improve its financial standing, and is turning out to be in much better shape than Greece and its other EU neighbors.

Barry is available to provide a look at how Ireland is faring and can speak about the future and the ongoing steps to “right the ship.”

It would be my pleasure to arrange an interview.

O’Leary (56) has worked in IDA for over 30 years in most of its business areas, including two periods totaling 15 years in Germany, latterly as Director Europe until 2002. He has been deeply involved in changing the profile and raising the value of Ireland’s inward investments in the past ten years. He has been primarily responsible, since his return to Ireland in 2002, for the successful establishment of Ireland as the leading global location outside the US for biopharmaceuticals. He has also undertaken strategic change and built new strengths in R&D, medical technologies, information and communications technologies (ICT) and other areas. He has led IDA teams that won world-class investments from companies such as Centocor, Cisco, IBM, Intel, Kellogg’s and SAP among many others. In addition to his role in the senior management of IDA, Barry O’Leary is a board member of the Dublin Molecular Medicine Centre and of the Institute of Neuroscience in Trinity College Dublin.

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