Can’t keep a Goodman down

From the top of the agri-business tree in the 1980s, through to the turbulent 90s and his subsequent resurgence in the beef industry, Larry Goodman will face the latest meat crisis in his usual fashion — head on, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

If there is a man in Irish business who can truthfully say he treats triumph and disaster as imposters just the same, it is Larry Goodman.

To his critics, Goodman is a tough operator, a fixer. The Beef Tribunal was established to investigate the beef processing sector and by extension, the activities of Goodman Group.