New magazine for Irish business women

Piaras Kelly tells us that "a new magazine is set to be launched in Ireland this year called ‘Women Mean Business’". I was interviewed by Regina Lavelle in November for a feature in the Irish Independent Weekend section about (the lack of) Irish women in business. It ran before Christmas but my contribution was left out :(

Anyway, one of things I wrote to Regina was -

I was lucky enough to receive a grant from Enterprise Ireland a few years ago to help develop my business, as part of the Galway Mayo Institute of Technology Enterprise Platform Program (EPP) and it entailed travelling to Galway for a day every second week to attend seminars and training. There were 9 different start-up founders in the group and not one of them was female. We were all quite amazed and disappointed by that and it was the first time I realized that something was 'wrong'. It was mostly high tech startups but that still
doesn't mean we should expect such a low 'turnout' of women.

Hopefully this new magazine will play a part in fostering a greater culture of entrepreneurship amongst Irish women.