'A swashbuckling pioneer': Renewable energy entrepreneur Eddie O'Connor dies

Stuart Stone
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Credit: SuperNode

Former chief executive of Bord na Móna, founder of Airtricity and co-founder of Mainstream Renewables and SuperNode, has died at the age of 76

Tributes flooded in this weekend to one of Europe's leading renewable energy pioneers, the Irish entrepreneur Eddie O'Connor, who has died at the age of 76. A former chief executive of Ireland's state-backed...

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