From his living room to the boardroom: UCC student persuades top CEOs to attend leadership summit

Chief executives from some of the country’s best-known firms have been lined up by an enterprising 20-year-old UCC student to appear at a business leaders forum in April -- all organised from his home in Cork.

Defying the laws of event management by cold calling, persuading and cajoling from his home on College Road, Bantry native and second-year economics student at UCC, Barry O’Sullivan put together the lineup for the event at Clontarf Castle Hotel in Dublin on April 5.