Daa airports chief Dalton Philips to leave for top job at foods firm Greencore

Mr Philips has been running the operations of Dublin and Cork airports as well as the international retailing outlets of Aer Rianta for five years

DAA chief executive Dalton Philips was also chief executive at Brown Thomas and had previously held the top job at British supermarket Morrisons.

Daa chief executive Dalton Philips is leaving the operator of Dublin and Cork airports to head up Greencore. He will take over from Patrick Coveney who left the top job at the foods firm in March.        

Greencore is one of Britain's largest convenience foods and sandwich makers and supplies many large UK retailers. It will be seeking to tap the expertise of Mr Philips in retailing. It was one of the food firms that was badly hit by the disruption caused by the Covid pandemic over the past two years.