O’Brien: Stand up and fight against recession

IRELAND is going to stand up and fight the current recession, entrepreneur Denis O’Brien told 900 business people in a rousing speech at the Cork Chamber Annual Dinner last night.

“This country is not going to bend its knee like in the past; instead we will stand our ground and take on our challenges and like the Munster rugby team we are going to stand up and fight,” he said.

Mr O’Brien said the good thing about what has happened is that our economic circumstances will be for the benefit of our society at large, as “conspicuous consumption and materialism will be passe and non pc”.