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How Jim Lyons helped
bring peace to Ireland
PHO TOGRAPHY BY CHRIS KOKIAS
It’s a lot to task one man with, helping bring peace to Ireland. But
Jim Lyons, with Denver’s Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons, was up to
the challenge when former President Bill Clinton asked him to
serve as U.S. observer to the International Fund for Ireland (IFI). In
that role, Lyons flew to Ireland several times a year to attend board
meetings that oversaw the grants, loans and investments that IFI
made to the communities of Northern Ireland in support of peace and
reconciliation. Those Irish roots still run deep. “The Republic of Ireland
did me a great honor [in 2009] and made me their honorary consul
for Denver,” he says today. “I try to help promote Irish businesses
in the Rocky Mountain region, serve as a representative of the Irish
government when it’s required, and, on a day-to-day level, assist Irish
citizens in the Denver area that need help with visas and passports.”
Other public service posts include serving as co-chair of Gov. Bill Ritter’s
Jobs Cabinet Report in 2009, which had Lyons going around the state
and coordinating relationships between educational institutions and
local businesses in an effort to create more jobs; and, in 2010, Ritter
tapped him again, along with Colorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort, to
co-chair the Higher Education Strategic Planning Report.
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