Meaty new role for banker
Tuesday March 31 2009
A BANKER has swapped his pin-stripe suit for a butcher's apron.
And former Anglo Irish Bank employee Brian O'Leary now plans to cut the price of fresh meat for cash-strapped consumers at a new discount meat outlet opening today.
Brian O'Leary exchanged his six-digit salary to return to his family business, the Dublin Meat Company.
Along with his father and brother, he is opening their second shop in Kinsealy, North County Dublin, offering Irish beef, pork and lamb at up to 40pc less than supermarkets.
Mr O'Leary said he aims to offer people a money-saving service as consumers grapple with their dwindling finances.
He has 13 years' experience in the foreign exchange trade, but decided to leave his banking job in December 2007 to set up an investment fund.
However, the credit crunch and a weak capital market have now inspired him to join the family business.
"I did not want to spend the rest of my life waking up in the middle of the night worrying where the dollar was, or where the Japanese yen was," he told the Irish Independent.
Of the current crisis, the former trader added, "It is shocking to see what is going on."
- Nadia Mathiasen
