Wasting away: facing Ireland’s energy crisis

ON Thursday night the top man at Chevron, Irishman David O’Reilly, insisted that Ireland would have to deploy all of the ingenuity it used to create the Celtic Tiger to successfully tackle the current energy crisis.

Mr O’Reilly is chairman and chief executive at the US energy giant, which is one of the biggest in the world, with a turnover close to €200 billion.

Mr O’Reilly left this country when opportunities were less plentiful and believes we have the capacity to beat the energy situation provided we tackle it with imagination.