A family man, a businessman, a would-be public representative, and a widely travelled person who has lived and worked on three Continents, Peter Casey is primarily a proud and honourable Irish man.

‘I have only ever had one passport, and have never sworn allegiance to any other country’, he told voters when embarking on political campaigning in Ireland in recent years.

An honours graduate in business and politics from Aston University, Birmingham, in 1979, Peter Casey worked briefly in the UK before emigrating to Australia to work with Rank Xerox.

He lived there for fifteen years, setting up his first business, Trinity Group, in 1985 and building it into one of the leading search and IT contracting firms in New South Wales.

The establishment of Claddagh Resources saw the entrepreneurial businessman move to the U.S.A in 1995, all the time regularly returning to his home in Ireland.

One of nine children born in Derry in 1957, Peter Casey was not politicised as a young man by the political and civil rights conflict, despite living in the city throughout ‘the Troubles’.

He was honoured with an invitation to participate in the White House Good Friday Peace Talks in the late 1990s.

Peter Casey is married to his second-wife Helen, who is from Crumlin in Dublin, and who he met in Australia in 1990.  They have been married for almost thirty years and have five grown-up children, two sons and three daughters.  Their two boys were born in Australia and their daughters in the USA.

The couple has homes in Greencastle in Donegal, and in Atlanta, Georgia.

Peter Casey has been recognised as one of Aston University’s 50 Most Influential Alumni, and was honoured as a leading Irish-American businessman by Irish-American Magazine.

He has written for media and appears in current affairs and business broadcasts, as well as appearing on the RTE start-ups programme, ‘Dragon’s Den’ on the investor panel.

Articles written by Peter Casey discuss entrepreneurship, education, challenges facing the Euro, the need for banking reform in Europe, bitcoin, BREXIT and other topical issues.

He is the author of Tata: The World’s Greatest Company, which was published in 2014 by Penguin, and a second book on the company, one of the world’s largest, will be available in late 2020.