Name: Turlough O'Sullivan.

Age: 51.

Position: Director General designate at IBEC.

Background: 1970 BA from UCD and diploma in international economics LSE; 1972-1975 Semperit; 1975-1993 Federated Union of Employers; 1993-present: IBEC, formerly director of human resources.

Interests: Golf with three sons in Edmunstown, music and reading.

Why he is in the news: New leader of the main employers' lobby group which is facing a test of its resolve over the present partnership arrangements in the face of rising inflation and union pressure for a review.