Banker Through and Through ; John Cranage Talks to Gerry Halahan, a Man Who Looks After the Financial Affairs of Some of the Midlands' Richest People
Birmingham Post › February 24, 2007
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If ever a man knows just what a revolution has swept through banking in the past 20 years it's Gerry Halahan.
Now aged 56, he began his career in the buttoned down Irish provinces in the days when starched butterfly collars were the order of the day and the local bank manager lived above the shop.See the full content of this document
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Banker Through and Through ; John Cranage Talks to Gerry Halahan, a Man Who Looks After the Financial Affairs of Some of the Midlands' Richest People
Today he operates from trendy glass-walled, laminate-floored, offices at Allied Irish Bank's Birmingham HQ in Temple Row, from where he looks after the financial affairs of some of the Midlands' richest people.
It's a long way and a different age from the little market town of Ballina in County Mayo on the West Coast of Ireland where he was born.His father, James, came originally from Waterford on the south coast of Ireland and earned a living in Ballina as one of the town's two barbers."There was one other barber in the town and we tried to put out bad vibes about him," he jokes."In the 1950s the environment was far from benign, in fa...See the full content of this document
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