4500. That is the number of Irish companies that didn’t go bust that probably would have during the pandemic. It’s just some of the highlights from an interesting report on insolvencies from the consultants PWC. And I've been joined live on the line by the head of restructuring at PWC, Ken Tyrrell.

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