Professor Aoife McLysaght discovered a totally new human gene. Her day job is as a genetic scientist, but there was a time when she was going to give it all up. After an unfriendly encounter with a colleague who queried her holiday leave, she sent a frank email to her...
GirlCrew - it's a global online platform and app that helps women make new friends, wherever they are in the world. It all started when a young woman, left alone due to coupled-up friends, needed someone to go to a concert with. A short note posted online, in search...
Fionnuala Meehan had "no clear career path" after her arts degree. So she took a job in a call centre where she was regularly pranked by German teenagers. She had her first child while still working in the call centre, then later moving on to work for internet giant...
Dr Ciara Clancy, accidental entrepreneur, physiotherapist, and 20-something CEO, has just been named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. She plasters her office not with accolades and press clippings, but with her "why." In her office you'll find thank you cards and...
Businessman Feargal Quinn's first book Crowning the Consumer sold more than 100,000 copies and was translated into 14 languages. It came after building a national chain of grocery stores, Superquinn, which he started at the age of 23. How did he do it? By always...
Ellvena Graham, OBE, is currently chairman of ESB, Ireland's electricity supply board, but in 2008 she was a director in the Royal Bank of Scotland when it lost £24.3bn - the biggest corporate loss in British history. How did the daughter of a mechanic from a rural...
In this edition of the Broadly Speaking podcast we speak to Irish entrepreneur Bobby Kerr who explains how he launched Insomnia Coffee at a time when the only choices when ordering coffee were ‘black or white’.
After cracking her first case at the age of just nine, Sandra Mara went on to become Ireland’s first professional female private investigator (PI). In this episode of the Broadly Speaking podcast Sandra outlines how she overcame death threats and being shot at to debunk the belief that being a PI is ‘no job for a woman’.
In this first episode of the Broadly Speaking podcast host Margaret E. Ward talks to Aine Kerr as she takes on a new role as Manager of Journalism Partnerships with Facebook.
