News Summary

• Ms Finnegan has been with Sherry FitzGerald for nearly 30 years.
• She was the first economist appointed to a property company in Ireland when she established its research arm in 1996.
• The position has been vacant since Steven McKenna left in February after 17 years with the business, eight of them as chief executive.
• The company has a 14 per cent share of the residential property market, employs 360 people in its owned business, and has a network of more than 100 offices, including a large number of franchisees.