Shepherd's Pie
Shepherd's Pie
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Summary
For the first time since the Irish financial meltdown comes a book not from an economist or journalist but from a self-employed Irishman who found himself in the eye of the storm, guilty of nothing more than investing in every level of his family business.
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Shepherd's Pie by George Mordaunt
Ireland is insolvent because of mismanagement, corruption and greed. We have been bombarded with and infuriated by reports of self-serving bankers, developers and government ministers. To date, the general public has not had an account of the devastating effect of this crisis on Irish-owned business as it tries to pick up the pieces. Irish businesses are trying to cope with insolvency, arrears, liquidation - the rate of suicide among the self-employed in Ireland has trebled in the last 3 years. George Mordaunt believes that many Irish businesses are now dysfunctional not because of the recession but because of the reaction of business owners to the recession - and specifically their reaction to their banks. With raw honesty he outlines the effect this reaction has had on himself, his young family, his marriage and his business. He shares his most private moments of despair and fear yet demonstrates how business owners can salvage their businesses and that we now have a core responsibility to get back to basics in all levels of Irish life.
An honest and gripping story that needed to be told … it was hard to turn the pages as I feared what was coming next – the rise was at least as frightening as the fallMick Wallace, TD One of the best books you’re ever likely to read about what went wrong in our country and why. Fergus Finlay, CEO, Barnardos
In late 2010, George Mordaunt's Chamber of Commerce conference speech to politicians and Irish company chiefs brought the conference room to tears and sparked this story of how bust businesses can lift themselves out of the mire and recover. George Mordaunt is the Managing Director of the Mordaunt Group, a family business based in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. He is married with two children.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781856358446 |
| ISBN 10 | 1856358445 |
| Title | Shepherd's Pie |
| Author | George Mordaunt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The Mercier Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2010-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |