Leake’s groundbreaking recycling initiative

John Murphy takes a closer look at how Sam Shire made local history

FOR 20 years Englishman Graham Leake had been a regular fishing visitor to the picturesque heritage town of Lismore.

Now he is very much an integral part of the industrial life of the West Waterford region where he set up his own recycling company which has made spectacular progress in less than five years in business.