A time to celebrate the company’s proud past — now on to the future

As the Irish Examiner’s Ford 100 coverage draws to a close, Ciarán McMahon, Chairman and Managing Director of Henry Ford & Son Ltd, reflects on a momentous journey through 2017.

The decision by Henry Ford to open a factory in Cork — the land of his ancestors — in 1917 was so momentous that it shaped the industrial life of the city and the entire country for generations.

Indeed, its effects are still reverberating today.