Students tune in to hear O’Brien’s message of hope for the future

MULTI-MILLIONAIRE businessman Denis O’Brien yesterday told an audience of young entrepreneurs that Ireland was in “a very positive place”.

Clearly unfazed by the country’s economic woes and the €50 billion bank bailout, he described the banking crisis as ‘a blip’ and a minor setback which would be overcome.

But, addressing a Young Entrepreneur Programme Blue Sky Day, in Tralee, the Digicel chief executive said the country had over-spent for a long time and it needed to be a country of modesty again.