If the boot fits: Teen scores with her design

A teenage entrepreneur got a real boot out of the Student Enterprise Awards national finals in Dublin yesterday.

Shiofa Ryan, 16, from St Brendan’s Community College in Birr, Co Offaly, invented a new type of hurling boot that won the top award. The transition student designed and manufactured the boots called An Tionchar, the Irish word for impact, that currently retail at €119.99 a pair.

Shiofa, a keen camogie player, is already in discussions with manufacturers to produce her invention on a bigger scale.