Irish Aviators Series: Dubai Duty Free CEO Colm McLoughlin & Margaret O’Shaugnessy Of The Foynes Flying Boat & Maritime Museum

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Jarlath Regan

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🗓️ 3 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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To start the New Year, we have a very special episode for you from our Irish Aviators series. In a year which has seen the world of aviation essentially come to a complete stand-still, these two conversations are full of the positivity that is needed at this time of year. Jarlath is joined by Dubai Duty Free CEO Colm McLoughlin who tells the fascinating journey from Galway to running a multi-billion dollar business in Asia. From the Foynes Flying Boat & Maritime Museum, Jarlath is joined by Margaret O'Shaughnessy who tells the incredible history of the first international airport in Ireland, the birth of Irish coffee and the key role that Hollywood star Maureen O'Hara plays in the legacy of the Museum. This is just a taster. To hear this episode in full and to gain access to the entire back-catalogue of over 400 Irishman Abroad episodes that are not available on iTunes for just the price of a pint every month visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad Our charity partner is jigsawonline.ie. In these tricky times, Jigsaw provides a range of resources, advice and care for your people to help them strengthen their mental health and the skills needed to navigate life. Please visit their website and consider making a donation. For updates on future episodes and live shows follow @jarlath on Twitter, visit www.jigser.com or email the show directly on [email protected]. Disclaimer: All materials contained within this podcast are copyright protected. Third party reuse and/or quotation in whole or in part is prohibited unless direct credit and/or hyperlink to the Irishman Abroad podcast is clearly and accurately provided.

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0:00.0	Hello there and welcome to our first episode of 2021. Happy New Year to you, all of the Irish
0:08.2	Man Abroad listeners, wherever you are in the world from me and everyone here at Irish Man
0:13.3	Abroad. I hope you're safe and well and that you can survive that Christmas and that you're
0:18.0	as optimistic as I am about the year to come. Well, what an episode we have for you
0:22.5	today to start things off. I've been piecing together an Irish Aviators series for over a year
0:30.1	now with the help of a few previous guests of the show. I just felt like the time had come to
0:36.4	talk about the Irish in aviation, the significant
0:40.3	impact that Ireland itself has had globally and the ever-evolving aviation sector and these
0:47.8	characters who are now at the front of it, at the head of it, and all of them, Irish, whether it's
0:53.9	Willie Walsh at British
0:55.7	Airwaves or Alan Joyce at Qantas, Eamon Brennan, overseeing the whole thing, or DeKrine
1:03.3	himself in South America. They're all extraordinary stories, and today is no exception. I have two very different ends of the spectrum
1:13.6	to present to you today. Margaret Oshaknessy, for starters, is the head of the Foyne's flying boat
1:21.6	and maritime museum. And here we get a chance to see how this museum came into being and how Ireland's first international airport was born alongside the first Irish coffee.
1:35.3	And the role Maureen O'Hara played in bringing the museum to life, as well as Margaret's life itself and the impact that COVID has had upon all of this incredible Irish
1:47.4	heritage. The second half of the episode is again, as I said, the other end of the spectrum with
1:54.5	Column McLaughlin, the head of Dubai Duty Free. I know. I was amazed that we were able to get this guest. Dubai duty-free
2:03.8	is a bea-muth with a turnover of 2.029 billion US dollars at last count. But that's the kind
2:15.5	of large end of this story because Column himself is a regular
2:20.8	Irish bloke who was born in July 1943 in Balinusloe County Galway, one of five children
2:28.6	educated in Garberley College in Balinusloe and a sportsman, a hurler, a tennis player, finds his way to the head
2:37.4	of this massive, massive company, an Irishman abroad living in Dubai at the summit and at the helm
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