Lifer on mission to right perceived wrong | Irish Examiner

Lifer on mission to right perceived wrong | Irish Examiner: I first met Seamus Maye in a Dublin hotel nearly a decade ago. He was pursuing a High Court action against the building materials giant, CRH. He was in the concrete business with his brother, but their operation went belly-up in 1993. He believed that they were driven out of business by CRH, which, he claimed had been operating a cartel among cement and concrete suppliers. CRH has been the subject of a number of allegations in this country, but none of substance has ever been proven. The company has always denied all allegations of impropriety and no court in this country has ever made a finding against it.

The company and its supporters put much of the controversy down to jealousy. There is no doubt but that CRH is highly successful, one of the country’s best performing entities, its tentacles now spreading out across the world. In business, and particularly in anything associated with the construction industry, things can get hairy, people can get hurt, and in the end only the fittest survive. That’s business, and sometimes it’s nobody’s fault at all.?