Peter Casey

Peter Joseph Casey (born 9 October 1957) is an Irish entrepreneur and unsuccessful political candidate. He is the founder and former Executive Chairman of Claddagh Resources, a global recruitment and executive search business. From 2012 to 2014 he was a panellist on the RTÉ television programme Dragons' Den, in which he was one of the investors adjudicating business plan pitches. He has run unsuccessfully for a number of political offices, including as a candidate in the 2018 Irish presidential election, coming second. and in April 2019, as a candidate for that year's European Parliament elections, in the Midlands-North-West constituency. Early and personal life Casey was born in Derry on 9 October 1957, the third of nine children (five boys and four girls). His mother Patsy Casey was deputy headmistress at Nazareth House Primary School and his father Leo was bursar at St Columb's College. Casey attended both schools before studying business administration, politics, and economics at Aston University in Birmingham. He lived in Atlanta, Georgia, with his second wife Helen and their five children until 2016, when they moved to Greencastle, County Donegal. He suffers from degenerative disc disease and has been prescribed medical cannabis to counteract the nausea he experiences when taking opiates.