{"id":147846,"date":"2025-10-27T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/147846\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:39:10","slug":"from-banker-to-beekeeper-meet-the-man-leaving-high-flying-financial-services-job-to-focus-on-familys-honey-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/147846\/","title":{"rendered":"From banker to beekeeper: Meet the man leaving high-flying financial services job to focus on family\u2019s honey business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Long-time Wexford banker Ian Mernagh is about to step back from his role and pour all his time and energy into All About Nectar\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ian Mernagh with his wife, Marie and children, Paddy, Kate and Molly.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3006893d-e735-45e3-a3b1-1d2623a6d201.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ian Mernagh with his wife, Marie and children, Paddy, Kate and Molly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of the most senior Wexford men in Irish banking is planning on stepping back and focusing on his award-winning honey business, which has been going from strength to strength in recent times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ian Mernagh (51) has been with Bank of Ireland for nearly a quarter of a century and is currently Head of Business Banking for Wexford and Wicklow. Soon, he will depart his role and join his wife Marie in the family business that he set up, All About Nectar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-time Wexford banker Ian Mernagh is about to step back from his role and pour all his time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,4247,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-147846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cillian-boggan","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115446413246204776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}