Irishman ends ‘deeply offensive’ sponsorship deal after years of pressure from the survivors and bereaved
The 2019 Open winner Shane Lowry has worn the Kingspan logo on the sleeve of his shirts during tournaments for many years.The 2019 Open winner Shane Lowry has worn the Kingspan logo on the sleeve of his shirts during tournaments for many years.
We the survivors and bereaved of Grenfell cannot sleep easy even now. Too many others are still at risk | Natasha Elcocklast week on the efforts made by the families and victims’ group Grenfell United to put pressure on Lowry to end the deal. GU said it wrote to him several times over the past three years urging him to stop and alerting him to evidence about Kingspan’s conduct emerging from the public inquiry, but he did not respond.
According to the public inquiry’s final report, Kingspan, a company with an €8bn-a-year turnover, “knowingly created a false market in insulation for use on buildings over 18 metres in height”. It did this by claiming a fire test showed it could be used in any building taller than 18 metres when this “was a false claim, as it well knew”.
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