Ex-paramilitaries and criminal gangs have sometimes muscled their way into the darker corners of the private security sector, it is often claimed.
So when musician and events organiser Shea McNelis and veteran doorman and close protection expert Pat Byrne set up Integrity Security they wanted to do things very differently.
And hiring a former brigadier general of the Irish Defence Forces and an ex-garda superintendent was a pretty strong declaration of the values and aspirations of their firm.
“Once upon a time, the security industry was looked at in a certain way – all bomber jackets and chewing gum,” says McNelis…READ MORE