‘There’s a lot of questions and not many answers’
Ashen-faced workers arrived at the group’s Irish headquarters in Dublin aware that bad news was in the offing following widespread media publicity about cutbacks at the insurer’s Irish operations.
Aviva executives from Britain who had travelled to Ireland on Tuesday hurriedly entered the company’s building — One Park Place — as similar briefings were also held in Aviva’s offices in Cork and Galway.