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It’s been another good year for Tallaght man Eric Mosley. His company Workhuman, which was formerly called Globoforce, saw revenues increase by over €90m and profits by €13m over 2018. The company said it expected revenues to jump above €700m in 2019. Moseley owns 11pc of the business. It paid shareholders dividends of €102m in the space of six months between December 2018 and last June.

Eighty-one-year-old Bill Durkan holds a majority of the Durkan construction group, which he founded in 1963. The company has become known as a major housebuilder, not just on these shores, but over in the UK too. Known for his heavy criticism of Nama, he paid off €43m worth of loans from the state agency, describing the process of dealing with it as “cumbersome, costly and time-consuming”. In accounts for the year ended November 2018, Durkan’s company reported profit before tax of £7.8m, with shareholders receiving a dividend of £6m.