The late Eddie O’Connor, whose funeral is taking place this Thursday, was a driving force behind Ireland’s reluctant switch towards renewable energy. This made him a regular interviewee on The Currency during the overlap between his long career and the short life of this publication to date. In the very last days of 2020, there were signs that O’Connor was up to something. Then still chairman and majority owner of Mainstream Renewable Power, the second successful renewable energy developer he had founded after Airtricity, he was pushing his new start-up, SuperNode. “I got people to back me, and they made…

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