Dragons Den – Transition Year

TRANSITION YEAR – DRAGONS DEN FINAL

Congratulations to Conor Little on winning the DRAGON’S DEN FINAL with his project ‘Recycled Fire Kindling’ last Friday morning, April 8^th, 2016.

Lead Dragon, Paul McGowan (Class of 1981) complimented all 5 Finalists on the quality of their presentations, their ideas, websites and the fact that all 5 businesses were up and running.

It was a great morning and I congratulate also Cillian O’Callaghan (2^nd with Callaghan Computers), Kelvin Hickey, Eddie Goggins and Ben Heapes (3^rd with 3MN); Jonty Byrne and Sean McCann (4^th with Fire Kindling) and Alex Quinlan, Callum Ryan and Hugh Carty (5^th with Atmos Entertainment).

I thank our Dragons – Paul McGowan, Stephen Conroy, Greg Moore, Owen Gibson (all Class of 1982), Aidan Corless, Jonathan Stanley (both Class of 1979), John Rafter (Class of 1981), Stephen Byrne (Class of 1978) and Union President David Coen (Class of 1986) for their time, interest and expert advice for our boys.

Finally, I thank Mr O’Neill and our Business Department for their organisation of the event.