{"id":515517,"date":"2026-06-24T04:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515517\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T04:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:28:58","slug":"from-sandwiches-to-nama-deals-and-a-venture-with-katie-taylor-the-busy-life-of-brian-mcgann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/515517\/","title":{"rendered":"From sandwiches to Nama deals and a venture with Katie Taylor: The busy life of Brian McGann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Brian McGann made the front page of the Limerick Leader when he opened for business in 1984. Below the picture of a wide-eyed, determined-looking young man, a single paragraph in bold type announced he had commenced practice as a chartered accountant. Over the next 26 years, he became extremely successful in a way the picture had hinted at, but then something changed inside him \u2013 not once, but twice. A new movie called Ghostbusters was opening at the Carlton cinema in the same week McGann featured on the front page of his hometown newspaper. Forty-two years later, McGann sits in\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"restricted-content__logo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/wp-content\/themes\/currency-theme\/assets\/img\/Monogram-dark.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"290\" height=\"246\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Join today with an Annual membership and unlock full access to The Currency and The Wall Street Journal for just \u20ac200 \u2013 two premium memberships, one subscription.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cancel at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide_mobile\">Are you already a member? .<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; Brian McGann made the front page of the Limerick Leader when he opened for business in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[198900,220032,220033,220034,93,220035,61,60,1396,220036],"class_list":["post-515517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-accountancy","tag-bdo-ireland","tag-brian-mcgann","tag-corporate-finance","tag-entertainment","tag-focus-capital-partners","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-robert-adams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515517","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=515517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}