While the stock has not outperformed its peers over the past five years, the company has become a potential takeover target for larger firms. Even if a takeover doesn’t happen, the activist investor ...

The company intends to offload the business for an undisclosed sum to LS Power as part of plan to shed US$20 billion in assets.

Will the appointment on Monday of another Dubliner, former CRH boss Albert Manifold, as incoming chairman help reboot the ...