O’Brien ambushes board of IN&M at group’s AGM

ONE of the country’s richest entrepreneurs, Denis O’Brien, continued his assault on Independent News & Media (IN&M) at the group’s annual general meeting held in Belfast yesterday.

His nominee, Andrew Clearfield, one of three nominees he had at the AGM, said the board was more appropriate to a company operating in 1967 than in 2007.

His comments followed the publication of report commissioned by Mr O’Brien that described the board as “crony” and seriously lacking independence.