Ray O’Rourke to step down as chief executive next week

Industry veteran Ray O’Rourke will step down as chief executive of the contracting business he founded five decades ago at the end of this month.
He will hand over the reins to his son Cathal O’Rourke, a graduate civil engineer who ran the Australian arm of the group for over a decade, and recently returned to the UK to become chief operating officer.
Ray founded the business as a regionally based formwork and concrete specialist in 1977. He has been at the forefront of introducing m