Investment firm still interested in Irish Life

US investment firm JC Flowers&, which was short-listed last year in the shelved sale of Irish Life, is still interested in buying the country’s largest life insurer, an executive at the firm said.

“We remain interested to invest in Ireland and have followed Irish Life’s progress over the last year or so,” Tim Hanford, managing director of JC Flowers & Co UK, said.

“If the Government were now to re-open the sale process for the company, then we would certainly hope to participate.”