The chairman and founder of TVC Holdings, an investment firm focused on Irish companies, has upped his stake in the company, spending about £300,000.
Shane Reihill took 500,000 shares at €0.70 a time and now has 21,668,322, which is about 21.4% of the company.
Reihill founded TVC in 1997. He also sits on the board of UTV, the media company with the ITV licence for Northern Ireland and one of TVC's investments.
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Other companies TVC invests in include banking software group CR2 and hotels group Maldron.
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