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Fri 11 Nov 2007Carrying IDA's baton to next levelThe Friday Interview: Ireland The IDA's CEO designate surveys a terrain of increased competitiveness and finds reason for Ireland to remain very confident.Barry O'Leary reckoned he'd stay in the IDA for "two or three years" when he took a job with the investment agency in the 1970s, but he never left. Thirty years later, he's now poised to take over as chief executive.