The new chairman of the FAI, Roy Barrett, joined investment bank SG Warburg in London just two months before Black Monday, when the Dow Jones fell by over 20 per cent in one day in 1987. It was a chaotic and exciting start to a stockbroking career that would take Barrett ultimately to the top of Ireland’s oldest stockbroking firm Goodbody. Along the way he worked on some of the biggest corporate deals of the boom, bust and recovery. He saw the ownership of Goodbody change hands multiple times. Yet he remained in charge. Barrett has shown repeatedly in his…

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