Gallagher: Local entrepreneurship is key to getting economy back on track

Former presidential candidate and entrepreneur Sean Gallagher emphasized the importance of entrepreneurship in getting the economy back on its two feet.

Speaking at the Cork Chamber Business Breakfast, he said that there was a recovery in Cork and Dublin, but in the small towns in Cavan and Monaghan it was up to the small businessmen to keep their communities alive.

“I see different Irelands: There is an Ireland in Dublin, an Ireland in Cork, but then there is another Ireland. Driving down the main street in Longford, small villages in the West of Ireland where people are struggling. We have half a million people unemployed and it is not going to be the Facebooks that land into Roscommon,” he said.