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On yer bike: Irish retailers trading mostly online this Black Friday. In this photograph a man on a bike wearing a face mask pass the Dublin Chamber of Commerce building on Clare Street. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
Forget Black Friday, welcome to Green Friday - 30 Irish retailers with great deals

Not so much a Black Friday list, this year, as a Green Friday one. There are many sites all over the work pushing Black Friday deals today but here ar(...)

Richard Kennedy of Devenish, the 2019 EY Entrepreneur of the Year. Photograph: Maxwells
Devenish CEO Kennedy named EY Entrepreneur of the Year

Richard Kennedy, the chief executive of agri-tech business Devenish, has won this year’s overall EY Entrepreneur of the Year award. The global compa(...)

Lulu O’Sullivan of Gifts Direct/The Irish Store: “I often see early-stage entrepreneurs doing everything but getting the sales in.”
‘The sooner you get sales, the quicker you learn from your customer’

As a 21-year-old growing up in Ireland at a time when employment was hard to come by, Lulu O’Sullivan decided her best bet would be to set up her own (...)