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OPINION:We need more successful start-up companies to create the next generation of Irish entrepreneurs, writes CHRIS HORN

IN LAST Friday’s Irish Times, I wrote in Innovationmagazine that Ireland has a great foundation. “We have many multinational companies present in the country, and are thus jealously viewed by competing jurisdictions. Our economy is open to enterprise and innovation . . . Our glass is thus half full. How do we fill the rest of it?”