First Ireland destroyed the West Indies on the field, now this… Denis O’Brien (a prominent entrepreneur of the Republic’s boom years), is in the headlines again. His company Digicel, recently took over sponsorship of the West Indies cricket team. Now as a result of a ban on personal endorsements for a rival company “out of 25 players originally invited to a training camp in Barbados next Monday, just nine will be able to attend”.
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