Terry Prone: Diversity, inclusion, and sustainability are real issues, not 'woke' drivel

We have to hope the next business generation in Ireland sticks with their belief in real underlying values

The rise of fast fashion and shoppers preference for quantity over quality has led to a glut of low-value clothing that inordinately burdens developing countries.File picture: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/ Bloomberg/ Getty

One of the best gigs I’ve chaired/facilitated in recent years was a gathering in a big house in the country where the founders of Irish businesses, and the offspring who were going to succeed them at the top of those businesses, got to talk about changing priorities.

Very quickly, it became apparent that a high priority, for the younger generation, was corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability.