The sports and entertainment talent agent said in a memo to staff that he had "become a distraction" to the company's work and had started the process to sell the firm. Mike Watts, a long-time executive, would take on day-to-day control of the business, he said in the memo obtained by Bloomberg News. Some of Ireland's best-known personalities are signed to the global music and sports agency.
Radio presenter and model Purcell is no stranger to the staycation and spent much of the summer in Irish towns and villages or on top of mountain peaks across the country.