Personal Profiles

Jarlath O’Keefe
Director Indirect Tax Services

What are your main responsibilities?
Provision of Indirect tax services to clients.

What is the most interesting thing about your job?
Meeting a diverse range of people.

What most prepared you for your current role?
Working as a Revenue Inspector .

What is the current most interesting thing happening in your field?
Review of existing EU legislation although I am not sure that ‘ interesting’ is the correct word.

What was your best subject in school?
History.

What's your favourite saying/quotation?
In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

How long go you spend commuting each day?
30 mins.

Favourite form of relaxation?
Watching any sport particularly football and soccer.

What is the best book you have ever read?
Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky.

What's your favourite film?
Shrek .

What's your favourite sporting moment?
Down winning All Ireland in 1991.

What is your pet hate?
Flying.

What's your ideal holiday?
Mauritius.

If you could go back in time, what year would you go back to and why?
1966 to ask Russian Linesman in World Cup final Why ?

If you could meet anyone in the world from any era who would it be? And why?
Nelson Mandela – an example to all of us.

What has been your proudest moment?
Birth of children or scoring winning point in East Down Under 14 final.

If you were not doing what you are doing now, what other job would you be in?
Sports Agent.

What would you like your legacy to be?
Professionally and personally that I achieved everything that I set out to do.