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More women encouraged to start their own businesses

The Minister for Small Businesses, John Perry TD, said it is vitally important to foster the development of ‘untapped female entrepreneurial talent’ in Ireland.

MORE WOMEN IN Ireland should start their own businesses – that’s the advice from the Minster for Small Business, John Perry TD.

At a meeting with Irish Ambassadors for Female Entrepreneurship yesterday, the Minister highlighted the importance of encouraging more women who have the “motivation, skills and ability” to start their own business.

Following the meeting, the minister noted that the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report for Ireland showed that the rate of early stage entrepreneurship is 3.9 per cent among women compared to 9.5 per cent for men.

He said this shows it is vitally important “to provide the right environment to foster the development of this untapped female entrepreneurial talent across all sectors of Irish business.”

The Ambassadors for Female Entrepreneurship can help stimulate growth in our economy and the government should encourage female entrepreneurs, he added.

President of Galway Chamber, Carmel Brennan, who is involved with the initiative, said that too few women are starting their own businesses in Ireland.

Minister Perry asked the ambassadors to identify the three most important issues impacting on female entrepreneurs.

If you’re a woman in business, or thinking of starting your own business, here are some websites that may be of interest:

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    Mute offside again
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    Feb 17th 2025, 5:33 PM

    Give me sunshine any day no matter how cold it is. It’s possible to miss lots of things about Ireland except the weather.

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    Mute Donna Fallon
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    Feb 18th 2025, 3:54 AM

    @offside again: So true… the difference it makes to your mood. Personally, I prefer to be too cold than too hot but I understand why others hate it. As my used to say ‘it’s fresh Donna’. Not sure but I think the low temperature gets rid of some germs too.

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    Mute Fergus Peter Smyth
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    Feb 17th 2025, 5:38 PM

    Was just thinking I hadn’t seen any sun in over a week. Glad it’s not only me that noticed

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    Mute james rowan
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    Feb 17th 2025, 5:47 PM

    I go to work in the dark and go home when its dark,so its nothing new for me in winter,,,

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    Mute paddy fc
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    Feb 18th 2025, 2:31 AM

    @Luke Littler: I’m on to you luke LITTER. You spend your days on here fishing for likes.

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    Mute Ed H
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    Feb 17th 2025, 5:52 PM

    Poor Dublin. God love them

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    Mute SOCOMJON
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    Feb 17th 2025, 6:21 PM

    @Ed H: From all of us, thank you

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    Mute John Paul
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    Feb 17th 2025, 6:26 PM

    @Ed H: We know we live rent free in all the rest of the countries heads…..people in rural Ireland can’t finish a sentence without mentioning Dublin.

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    Mute Fionn Bohane
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    Feb 17th 2025, 6:57 PM

    @John Paul: which countries are those Ed?

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    Mute Eamon
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    Feb 17th 2025, 7:04 PM

    @Fionn Bohane: John Paul probably won’t understand that.

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    Mute John Paul
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    Feb 17th 2025, 7:33 PM

    @Fionn Bohane: counties…..spell check.

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    Mute Adam J
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    Feb 17th 2025, 7:35 PM

    @Ed H: Better than living in the “Shticks”, where it’s a 30 minute journey to the nearest town to do the shopping from the one store that has a monopoly and charges Dublin prices, seen it in many a rural area

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    Mute alan dunne
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    Feb 17th 2025, 10:54 PM

    @Ed H: hope it doesn’t affect all the cash we send your way

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    Mute John Moore
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    Feb 18th 2025, 1:14 AM

    @Ed H: Your power been reconnected yet? Lol.

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    Mute D
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    Feb 17th 2025, 6:15 PM

    Hate to live in Dublin …. Jaysus the hours of wasted life in traffic alone heartbreak

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    Mute John Paul
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    Feb 17th 2025, 6:24 PM

    @D: I have no problem putting up with traffic to have everything on my doorstep….pro’s and con’s to both but I’d take urban vs rural any day.

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    Mute John Paul
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    Feb 17th 2025, 6:28 PM

    @J B: You can always stay out of it!….typical culchie up here working but wouldn’t have a good word to say about it or its people.

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    Mute John Paul
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    Feb 17th 2025, 7:32 PM

    @J B: Good,pity you wouldn’t take the rest of them with you.typical culchie.

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    Mute Adam J
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    Feb 17th 2025, 7:33 PM

    @D: I make it to the office in 20 minutes, can also work from home, lunchtime has a whole host of options if I fancied going out for it, the rhetoric of gridlock is in your head

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    Mute Fergus O'Donnell
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    Feb 17th 2025, 7:43 PM

    @John Paul: your type are the worst thing about Dublin. West Brits with a chip on their shoulder.

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    Mute eoin fitzpatrick
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    Feb 17th 2025, 8:16 PM

    @D: traffic doesn’t affect the woke dublin elites like myself who cycle to work it’s great

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    Mute Tony
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    Feb 17th 2025, 7:15 PM

    That’s most weeks in Leitrim but it’s news when it happens in Dublin.

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    Mute brendan C5
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    Feb 17th 2025, 7:32 PM

    @Tony: plus the west.

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    Mute Daratheprofessional 1
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    Feb 17th 2025, 8:54 PM

    @brendan C5: The weather in Mayo is class.

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    Mute Ludie Creech
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    Feb 17th 2025, 10:27 PM

    Nothing a good carbon tax won’t fix, I’m sure.

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    Mute Joe Ivers
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    Feb 17th 2025, 8:16 PM

    Caller ” It’s a diiiiis..’grace Joe! They should do something about it.
    Joe : “They?!?”
    Caller “The government Joe!”

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    Mute Le Merchelant
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    Feb 17th 2025, 7:05 PM

    Why am I still living on this fkn island

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    Mute Thomas Meaney
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    Feb 17th 2025, 7:14 PM

    @Le Merchelant: As someone who has worked mostly outside of Ireland for the past 15 years I ask myself the same EVERY SINGLE DAY – Why…….????

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    Mute j m m
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    Feb 17th 2025, 8:53 PM

    Got that right! Month of Mordor…. gloomy kip.

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    Mute Tim
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    Feb 18th 2025, 8:46 AM

    Been living under cloud in Dublin for last two weeks but we have a weekend break in Galway this weekend just as the sun moves to Dublin, it’s me, isn’t it, it’s me, I know it’s me.

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    Mute Phillip Smyth
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    Feb 17th 2025, 8:45 PM

    Typical.

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    Mute Lei tatt
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    Feb 17th 2025, 10:10 PM

    Kip will always be kip

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    Mute Mark Codd
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    Feb 18th 2025, 10:09 AM

    High flying aircraft busy spreading chemicals blocking out the sun US government now banned this activity Chemtrails over whole country ..people need to know about this

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