Tipperary hurler Darren Gleeson faces ban from work in finance

Tipperary hurler Darren Gleeson faces an “indefinite” ban from working in a senior role in a financial services advisory firm, the Central Bank has disclosed.

The regulator has issued a so-called prohibition notice on Mr Gleeson, of Portroe, Nenagh, under its powers to approve senior posts at financial firms “where concerns arise about their fitness and/or probity”.

Such indefinite bans in financial firms are still rare in Ireland, and the Central Bank did not explain the circumstances that led to it imposing the prohibition notice following a legal process.