{"id":331746,"date":"2026-03-06T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331746\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T08:48:09","slug":"you-need-to-be-resilient-when-youre-working-in-this-business-because-the-tough-days-will-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/331746\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You need to be resilient when you\u2019re working in this business \u2013 because the tough days will come\u2019"},"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\">Leo Casey, head of investment fund BFG Ireland, says his firm is in the right place at the right time\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Leo Casey of BFG. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b9a92ae7-f2bd-4e9f-a234-a19ee77c2f2d.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)\">Leo Casey of BFG. Photo: Mark Condren<\/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)\">Despite concerns that AI will replace people in the investment world, Leo Casey reminds his staff of one crucial deal-making skill AI still hasn\u2019t mastered: only humans can share a glass of red wine.<\/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)\">Casey, who heads up the State- and bank-backed investment fund BGF in Ireland, is a strong believer in people power. This perspective is especially relevant as his fund focuses on founder-led, and often family-owned SMEs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leo Casey, head of investment fund BFG Ireland, says his firm is in the right place at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13395,7863,72,61,60,5913],"class_list":["post-331746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-allied-irish-banks","tag-bank-of-ireland","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sean-pollock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331746","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=331746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}