Eddie O Connor

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Pictured at the launch of this year’s The Irish Times Business Awards in association with KPMG, were Eimear Moran, media solutions director with the Irish Times; KPMG managing partner Shaun Murphy, and Cathriona Hallahan, managing director of Microsoft Ireland and chair of the judging panel. Photograph: Kieran Harnett
‘The Irish Times’ launches second annual business awards

The second edition of The Irish Times Business Awards, in association with KPMG has been launched. This year’s awards ceremony will be held in the Ma(...)

Eddie O’Connor, Mainstream chairman, owned 42 per cent of the firm before it spent €153.3 million in late 2018 repurchasing and cancelling stock acquired by Barclays. Photograph: Frank Miller
Eddie O’Connor’s stake in Mainstream jumps to 55%

Green energy entrepreneur Eddie O’Connor’s stake in Mainstream Renewable Power has increased to 55 per cent, after the emerging-markets-focused wind a(...)

Adverse shock, anybody? Brexit is only one factor that could deliver it, according to the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. Photograph: PA Wire
Adverse economic shock ‘inevitable’, Dublin Airport’s expansion and Five Guys expands

It is now inevitable that the economy will suffer an “adverse shock” from Brexit, US policies or changes to the international tax environment, the Iri(...)

Mainstream Renewable CEO Andy Kinsella
Mainstream seeks partner for $1.65bn Chilean projects

Dublin-based Mainstream Renewable Power has begun the search for an equity partner to help build and run $1.65 billion (€1.42 billion) of wind and sol(...)

The Sunday Times reports that companies linked to the family of developer Paddy McKillen are now in exclusive talks to buy the former Clerys department store on O’Connell Street in Dublin from Deirdre Foley’s Natrium consortium.
PTSB may cut third of bad-loans staff

Permanent TSB’s (PTSB) agreement in late July to sell 11,000 distressed mortgages to an affiliate of US private equity firm Loan Star may result in th(...)

Eddie O’Connor has long been associated with renewable energy. The onetime chief executive of Bord na Móna founded Airtricity in 1997, selling it 10 years later to Scottish & Southern Energy and German power giant EON for €2 billion.
‘The Irish Times’ Business Person of the Month: Eddie O’Connor

The chairman of green energy group Mainstream Renewable Power, Eddie O’Connor, has been chosen as The Irish Times Business Person of the Month for May(...)

Mainstream has 160 staff across four continents who are focused on delivering more than 7,000MW of wind and solar assets in construction and development. Photograph: Sergio Perez/Reuters
Dublin-based Mainstream Renewable in African wind farms deal

Dublin-based Mainstream Renewable Power, the emerging markets-focused green energy company, has closed a deal to finance the 6.6 billion South African(...)

The jump in the value of the Neart na Gaoithe 450MW project, capable of powering all homes in a city the size of Edinburgh, comes as the cost of developing offshore wind farms has fallen in recent years. Photograph: iStock
Mainstream sells Scottish project to France’s EDF for over €600m

Mainstream Renewable Power, the green energy group founded a decade ago by entrepreneur Eddie O’Connor, has sold a wind farm project off the Scottish (...)

Mainstream Renewable Power, the green energy group, was founded a decade ago by businessman Eddie O’Connor.
Eddie O’Connor’s Mainstream sells Scottish windfarm project to France’s EDF

Mainstream Renewable Power, the green energy group founded a decade ago by businessman Eddie O’Connor, has sold a wind farm project off the coast of S(...)

Mainstream Renewable chief executive, Andy Kinsella
Grey market for Mainstream, a new sugar industry and Jo Malone’s big mistake

Early investors in Eddie O’Connor’s Mainstream Renewable Power will be able to trade shares in the company before the end of the year, offering a prom(...)

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