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‘A lot of blood, sweat, and tears went into those years’

With over 20 years’ experience across sectors of the construction industry and a family legacy in home building,…

By Victoria Stokes

Fiona Matthews, Applegreen
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‘It’s okay to have moments where you’re not running at the same pace as you want to run all of the time’

From a three-generation family history in retail to the magic of Disney and via two redundancies, Fiona Matthews…

By Fiona Alston

Mairead Mackle, IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year - Entrepreneur of the Year 2024
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‘Who cares if you fail? You learn by your failures. We’ve tried loads of things and failed’

Entrepreneur Mairead Mackle oversees a host of different businesses - from homecare to housing and renewable energy to…

By Ian Kehoe

Val Cummins the 2024 Sustainability Champion category winner at the IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards
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‘Business is about nothing more and nothing less than relationships’

Val Cummins’ imagination has always been captured by the sea. This year’s Sustainability Champion category winner at the…

By Fiona Alston

Edwina Donnellan, Family Business category winner at the 2024 IMAGE WC Businesswoman of the Year Awards
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‘I’ve had some very deep conversations on the shop floor with customers’: Edwina Donnellan, CEO of Donnellan’s Centra in Ennis

Edwina Donnellan built her family’s Centra into a pillar of the local Ennis community. In this article, in…

By Alice Chambers

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‘Targets and the bottom line aren’t everything’: Lisa McKenna, IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Diversity & Inclusion winner 2024, on fostering an ecosystem of female leadership

Lisa McKenna set up her own law firm driven by a desire to challenge the inequity she had…

By Sarah Kiely Lavelle

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“I’d like to be known as a good boss, parent, wife and friend”: Emma Maye on being an unexpected CEO

Emma Maye learned about construction during hard times. Now on the other side she leads a thriving homebuilder…

By Tom Lyons