Keeping it in the family at UCC

OWNERS of family businesses from Ireland and abroad will converge on Cork tomorrow for a major UCC conference on issues affecting the sector.

The Irish Family Business Conference 2005, which will be hosted by the university’s John C Kelleher Family Business Centre, will feature a range of high-profile speakers, including former British Prime Minister John Major.

Centre director Joan Buckley said family businesses from all sectors of the economy would be represented and delegates from Ireland and overseas had shown “considerable interest” in the conference.