Keating & Associates, one of Ireland’s leading corporate communications consultancies, is pleased to announce that Lorcan Allen will join the firm as Director of Business Development. An award-winning journalist, Lorcan has spent more than a decade working at the highest levels of business journalism in Ireland, having held senior roles with the Business Post and the Irish Farmers Journal. Lorcan will join the senior management team at Keating & Associates and help to expand the firm’s offering to clients.

Commenting on Lorcan’s appointment, Keating & Associates, Managing Director, Emmet Barrett said; “Providing added-value counsel to multinational and leading Irish business clients, we are thrilled to have someone of Lorcan’s experience and reputation join the Keating & Associates’ team. Lorcan’s established network and business expertise will bring strategic value to our consultancy offering helping to develop new opportunities in growth sectors like energy and infrastructure, technology and pharma FDI as well as Agri business.”

Lorcan spent the last three years as business editor of the Business Post, leading the publication’s business and financial markets coverage, with a particular focus on developments in Ireland’s energy and agri-food sectors. Prior to that, Lorcan spent eight years working for the Irish Farmers Journal, where he started his career in media before becoming the paper’s agribusiness editor in 2019.

A regular contributor on national radio and TV on business and economic issues, Lorcan was named Business Journalist of the Year in 2020 at the annual Newsbrands Ireland journalism awards. He is also a Nuffield scholar, having spent two years researching a policy paper on how Ireland’s agri-food sector could adopt climate action measures and transition to a more sustainable production system.

“I am incredibly excited to be joining Keating & Associates as Director of Business Development, a team I’ve known for many years as part of my role as a business journalist. Having spent more than a decade working in business journalism, my passion has always been to write about great businesses operating in Ireland. I now look forward to working directly with those businesses to help them achieve their key strategic goals in Ireland,” he added.