Eugene Murtagh (born 23 June 1942) is an Irish billionaire businessman, and the founder and chairman of Kingspan Group, a building materials manufacturer.

Eugene Murtagh was born on 23 June 1942,[1] in Kingscourt, County Cavan, Ireland, where he grew up in the same street as his future wife Andrea Carolan.

[2] In the early 1960s, when he was a fitter and she was a hairdresser, they started a business making trailers.

[3] He was married to Andrea Carolan until her death in 2014, and they had five children together.

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