Broadband boss: Eamon Ryan's a man we can do business with

The new Minister for Communications used to think that state-funded metropolitan area networks were a flop and a "spectacular waste of public money". So now that he's the Minister responsible for this €200 million investment, where does that leave E-Net, the company that runs these 'money-wasting' projects?

Unperturbed, according to Conal Henry, E-Net's chief executive (pictured). "I think the Minister may have changed his thinking a bit on this," he told me. "He's well qualified to look at the situation sensibly." Is Minister Ryan just being pragmatic or has he genuinely changed his mind on these issues?