Merrion Capital has announced two new appointments to its private client division. Mr Andy Brennan joins as deputy head of division from the Bank of Ireland, where he has been senior manager in the private banking division. A banker of 30 years' experience, he was instrumental in setting up Bank of Ireland's private banking division in 1989.

Mr Mark Roche joins Merrion from Anglo Irish Bank, where he worked for the last two years as a senior portfolio manager in the private banking division. Before that he was with the pension fund management section of Friends First Asset Management.