Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Prologue

EARLY YEARS

1. Gonzaga and childhood in Monkstown

2. Student days at UCD

3. The Arms Trial

4. Fine Gael

PUBLIC OFFICE

5. The Eighth Amendment time bomb

6. The Troubles: negotiating the Anglo-Irish Agreement

7. Getting Competition: becoming a European Commissioner

8. Shaping EU competition policy

9. President of the European Commission?

10. Brokering the Uruguay Round and setting up the WTO

11. Globalisation and its discontents

CORPORATE CAREER

12. Allied Irish Bank: the DIRT scandal

13. Flying high – then crashing – with GPA

14. Goldman Sachs

15. Clipping Goodwin’s wings at RBS

16. The longest serving chairman

A SENSE OF DUTY

17. Migration: UN Special Representative

18. The biggest crisis of our time

19. A turbulent relationship with Ireland

20. Brexit: a nightmare unfolds

21. Faith and philanthropy

22. Family

23. Legacy

Picture Section

List of Illustrations

Appendices

Footnotes

Endnotes

References

Index

Acknowledgements

About the Author

About the Publisher