Any Other Business: Kevin Bakhurst bemoaned RTÉ DG process that ‘seemed to drag on interminably’
He denied that being turned down as DG had prompted him to leave Ireland. A headhunter approached him about the Ofcom job, and the selection process was “mercifully quick” in comparison to RTÉ’s, he said. “I couldn’t have gone through the director general ordeal again,” he told the Mail.
The Dublin Tech Summit, to be held in the RDS on May 31st and June 1st, is expecting up to 8,000 attendees to hear hundreds of speakers from all over the world. The summit offers “great opportunities for networking and connecting with tech founders, investors and other media”, organisers claim. There’s a questionnaire on the summit’s website for applicants to be host or moderator. The last question is: “Do you expect payment?” The options are “yes” and “no”. It seems fair to suggest that only those who say “no” will be considered?An Post could end its connection with the National Lottery this summer when the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan sells its majority stake.
Sources at the GPO predict An Post may sell anyway, since the lottery is not considered a strategic asset, and the cash could be put to better use. In 2020, An Post valued its 10.7 per cent shareholding at €33.9 million, although some industry sources doubt PLI is worth €300 million today. Larkin explained that the step up from creating a product to opening a retail space can be daunting. “The Limerick pop-up is a super risk-free opportunity for anyone looking to test the retail market,” she told the Post.An activist shareholder in Hammerson, Ireland’s biggest retail property investment firm, is demanding that it dispose of assets.
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