{"id":246092,"date":"2026-01-15T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246092\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:10:08","slug":"how-a-wicklow-woman-has-made-it-to-top-of-motor-finance-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246092\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Wicklow woman has made it to top of motor finance industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Wicklow\u2019s Liz McNab is a top executive at Close Brothers, the main sponsor at the upcoming European Motor Show at the RDS in Dublin\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Liz McNab of Close Brothers, the main sponsor at the European Motor Show. Photo: Andres Poveda\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/5526-0074.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Liz McNab of Close Brothers, the main sponsor at the European Motor Show. Photo: Andres Poveda<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The European Motor Show is about to roar into the RDS, bringing its annual burst of chrome, colour, and high-octane spectacle to Dublin\u2014and right at the heart of the action will be Liz McNab. The Bray native turned Newcastle resident isn\u2019t a racing driver or a celebrity guest, but in her own way she keeps Ireland moving. As one of the top executives at Close Brothers, the event\u2019s main sponsor, Liz represents a company that quietly helps tens of thousands of motorists get behind the wheel every year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You may not instantly recognise the Close Brothers name, and that\u2019s by design. Their work happens behind the scenes\u2014recommended by dealers, woven into the paperwork, and powering everything from first-time Micra buyers to proud new Range Rover owners. Yet at the centre of this understated success story is a woman who has spent almost her entire working life steering Ireland\u2019s motor finance industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wicklow\u2019s Liz McNab is a top executive at Close Brothers, the main sponsor at the upcoming European Motor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,24533,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-246092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-david-medcalf","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}