![]() She was also responsible for a significant expansion of the group, including the purchase of the website myHome.ie. She joined the company in 1997, working in the newspaper’s telesales department, and quickly worked her way up the ranks.ĭuring her term in office the group’s former headquarters of 110 years’ standing in D’Olier Street was sold for over €22 million at the height of the property boom. Ms Donovan said she was pleased to be leaving the business on a sound footing with excellent brands and subsidiary brands. “That helps to keep a keen strategy and a great freshness in an organisation,” she said. ![]() The departing Irish Times managing director said that she feels that the professions have a better method of leadership in that managing partners are selected for a specified period of five years or so and then a new leader takes over. “We wish her every success and happiness for the future,” he added. “On behalf of the board, management and staff I want to thank Maeve for her loyalty and dedication to the newspaper and the company. “Under her leadership the company has expanded its print and digital interests and developed a very successful contract printing business,” he said. ![]() “It is a great endorsement of the management team we have developed here, where my policy has been to empower and encourage people to make decisions and not to take instructions,” she said.Ĭhairman of the board David Went said the board fully respected her decision to retire following 32 years of service with the company, eight of them as managing director. ![]()
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