Frank Dillon, The Irish Times, 25 May 2025
Wild Geese : Ruairi Doyle, Vancouver
“I’m finally getting some return on my Leaving Cert French.”
Ruairí Doyle had no intention of moving from Ireland again after a three-year spell working for Google in London. With a background in software engineering and digital media, he felt ready to settle back in Ireland when the opportunity came up to establish the Dublin office of Press Reader in 2017.
The Canadian-headquartered firm, which provides readers with digital access to a wide variety of international publications, quickly promoted the Rathnew native, bringing him to Vancouver two years later and subsequently appointing him chief executive in 2022.
Press Reader is a 25-year-old privately owned business, headquartered in the Canadian city with operations in the Philippines and Dublin. It employs more than 460 people worldwide.
It provides digital aggregation of many of the world’s leading newspapers and magazines, ebooks and, shortly, audio books from more than 120 different countries in 60 languages, with clients including libraries, hotels, corporate and private customers, airlines and cruise ships, among others.