{"id":74690,"date":"2025-08-18T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74690\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:38:09","slug":"from-paschal-donohoe-to-chupi-sweetman-10-figures-from-irish-business-share-their-summer-book-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/74690\/","title":{"rendered":"From Paschal Donohoe to Chupi Sweetman \u2013 10 figures from Irish business share their summer book picks"},"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\">AI, aviation, horror and history are ticking the boxes for these readers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nothing beats a good page-turner while you're on holidays. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/410f1ecd-abff-41a4-9eb9-619da7b0c2a6.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)\">Nothing beats a good page-turner while you&#8217;re on holidays. Photo: Getty<\/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)\">For many practitioners in Irish business, the August holiday isn\u2019t just a time to relax, it\u2019s a rare chance to read for pleasure. Or might some, instead, squeeze in a self-improvement book, a training manual, or a management guide?<\/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)\">And whether it\u2019s a gripping thriller or a weighty memoir, do their choices reveal something more about the personality behind the public persona? You decide. We asked a cross-section of public figures in business and finance for a peek at their reading material this summer. This is what they told us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AI, aviation, horror and history are ticking the boxes for these readers Nothing beats a good page-turner while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,32121,27527,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-74690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-paschal-donohoe","11":"tag-rory-mcginn","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}