On the day after the TDs elected to the 31st Dail meet for the very first time, Banter talks to a couple of new Irish businesses about life in 2011.<\/p>\n
As our new government prepare to take office against a backdrop of economic doom and gloom, life outside Leinster House for new, aspiring Irish businesses goes on as normal. The well-documented problems which businesses face on the ground won’t change overnight just because there’s a new man at the helm of the Department of the Taoiseach.<\/p>\n
But while these are tough times for business people like our three guests, this state of affairs has not stopped them – or hundreds like them – from giving it a go. Instead of expanding energy on giving out or planning a life abroad, they’re spending their time and energy working on nascent business ideas and seeing where it all goes from here.<\/p>\n
On the agenda: innovation, ideas, ingenuity, funding, optimism and the future.<\/p>\n
On the panel: Anne Bedos<\/a> (Rothar), Colin Harmon<\/a> (3FE Coffee & Caf\u00e9), Al Coleman<\/a> (Onlineadvertising.ie and TEDxLiffey). “Going forward”: Jim Carroll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the day after the TDs elected to the 31st Dail meet for the very first time, Banter talks to a couple of new Irish businesses about life in 2011. As our new government prepare to take office against a backdrop of economic doom and gloom, life outside Leinster House for new, aspiring Irish businesses … <\/p>\n