Ray O’Rourke has paid tribute to former Laing O’Rourke deputy chairman Bernard Dempsey who passed on to the great beyond ultimate week elderly 77.
Dempsey joined O’Rourke on the finish of the Nineteen Seventies and retired from it, when it was once referred to as Laing O’Roukre, in 2011. he was once considered one of 3 shareholders within the corporate along along O’Rourke and his past due brother Des.
In a remark, Ray O’Rourke stated: “We’re deeply saddened via the loss of life of Bernard Dempsey.
“Bernard first joined the industry in 1979 as a amount surveyor and went directly to turn out to be a director, deputy chairman and shareholder. He was once well known and respected throughout our nice business. Our inner most sympathies are with Bernard’s friends and family at this hard time.”
One former colleague, who requested to not be named, added: “Very unhappy, a really perfect guy. He by no means sought after to be the only on a pedestal however in the back of the scenes his unassuming, frequently discrete recommend, modified such a lot of folks in a enormous approach.”
