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Tom Roche
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Tolls paved the way for massive global expansion
Monday February 01 2010
NATIONAL Toll Roads (NTR) began as a humble operator of toll bridges.
Speed-king Kenny breezes to Sailor of the Month award
Saturday January 30 2010
John Kenny of Ringsend in Dublin, is the Irish Independent/Afloat.ie Sailor of the Month for January after the 37-year-old pushed the bounds of water-borne, wind-powered speed in Ireland during winter's big breezes.
Justin Keating
Sunday January 03 2010
Justin Keating, who died on New Year's Eve just a few days short of his 80th birthday on January 7, was one of the Labour Party's 'new wave', which also included Conor Cruise O'Brien and David Thornley.
Kevin Myers: Try explaining aspects of Irish life to a German; when you're done, try explaining them to me
Kevin Myers Wednesday December 16 2009
There is a small test that I want you to apply to any aspect of Irish life. It is called, Try Explaining It To A German. For example, the Government recently announced -- as, for the 15th straight winter, half the country vanished under a midwinter flood -- that it is only now inviting tenders for a feasibility study into the merits of a national flood warning system. Try explaining that to Wilhelm, or why nothing will ever come of the feasibility study.
State buyout decimated us, says toll road boss
Sunday December 13 2009
THE entrepreneur whose toll bridge was bought out in one of the biggest compulsory purchases ever made by the State has said the deal "decimated" his business.
Profitable future lies in the green sector, says NTR founder
Saturday December 12 2009
ONE of the founders of leading infrastructural development group NTR said the company's future lay in the green energy sector which he said will yield billions of dollars in revenues in coming years.
What about our natural assets?
Tuesday October 06 2009
I cannot see what reasonable alternative there was to the introduction of NAMA. I would, of course, also like to see our civil servants, TDs and senior bankers made accountable for their actions and sacked on the spot when they are found to have mismanaged our money and country. But right now sacking someone won't change one thing, except make me, and a whole lot of other people, feel better.
Heraty and Roche back €4.5m Volvo Irish yacht
Sunday November 09 2008
Seventeen Irish businessmen and women stumped up €100,000 each to get the Green Dragon, the Irish boat set to battle the Indian Ocean this Saturday in Volvo's round-the-world ocean race, into the water.
The team behind 'Green Dragon'
Monday October 13 2008
The 'Green Dragon' is funded by a business group put together by Galway men John Killeen, Eamon Conneely and Enda O Coineen.
M50 directors unmasked
Shane Ross Sunday August 31 2008
WHO will be the first victim? Someone will soon go to jail for not paying a €3 toll fee on the M50. Come back, National Toll Roads, all is forgiven.
