Keeping it in the family: Why one insurance broker has no regrets for not selling up

Offers came his way as consolidation swept the insurance broker sector, but Tim Dooley is happy for the family firm to stay independent

Tim Dooley of Dooley Insurance plays the long ball game. Photo: Big Picture Communications

Fearghal O'Connor

Irish insurance brokers have lived through a consolidation goldrush in recent years, but one of the sector’s last remaining large independent brokers believes that the big offers and huge paydays are over.

Tim Dooley – whose family business was started by his father in 1957 – has no regrets about turning down a number of offers in recent times to buy his business.