O’Brien Plant Hire profits double

WILLIAM O’Brien Plant Hire doubled its profits to €1.56 million last year.

The company, based in Cork, was acquired by William O’Brien Jnr last October when he bought out the firm’s remaining family shareholders to gain 100% of the business.

Pre-tax profits increased to €1.56m in the year to end May 2007 from €706,000 in the previous financial year, accounts just filed at the Companies Registration Office reveal.