Any Other Business: Magic is kept under wraps at Consello’s launch party as media shut out

Journalists are usually on the guest list for business launches, and coaxed into giving favourable coverage to a new firm by the application of copious amounts of free drink. Consello, the consultancy run by Tipperary businessman ­Declan Kelly, employed a different modus operandi at the launch party of its new Irish offices in the ­Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin last week..