Cormac Lucey OC’78

Cormac Lucey was born in Dublin and grew up in County Down and County Mayo. He was educated in Clongowes’s Wood College, UCD and qualified as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in 1987. He has since worked in the financial industry, focusing on corporate finance. Between 2002 and 2007 he served as special adviser to the Tanaiste, Michael McDowell.

He has developed and currently presents the Diploma in Corporate finance (at Chartered Accountants Ireland) and the Diploma in Business Finance (at the Irish Management Institute). He also teaches finance at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School (University College Dublin).

He contributes regularly to discussions on public affairs and is a weekly columnist on economics with the Irish edition of The Sunday Times. He has contributed to several books including authoring Plan B – How Leaving the Euro Can Save Ireland and co-authoring The Business Compass – Perspectives on Business Ethics.

Portraits of Clongowes

A podcast series on alumni who went to Clongowes who share their recollections of those days now as adults.Series 4 has been sponsored by Eimear Hannon, of Hannon Travel and Liz O’Kane, Buying Agent of the Year 2024, and is out soon. Portraits is recorded and produced in South Podcast Studio in Dundrum. The series concept is devised and crated by Rossa McDermott OC’78.Broadcast Coordinator Lee Brennan & Conor EustaceEditor Peter Rice If you enjoy podcasts consider supporting the projecthttps://gofund.me/b2eafd2and/or want to be on the podcast E clongowes1978@gmail.com

• No. of episodes: 104
• Latest episode: 2024-12-16
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