Which Irishman was in the business news in India during the last days of 2012, for taking over as head of a conglomerate that was founded exactly a hundred years before he was born?
[+ Show Answer]
Cyrus Mistry, who took over as Chairman of the Tata group, succeeding Ratan Tata. Mistry's mother and father are Irish citizens (one by birth, the other by naturalisation); he gets his Irish citizenship thanks to his mother. The Tata Group began in 1868, a hundred years before Mistry's birth in 1968.
This day last year: Q.460