Scheme supporting returning Irish emigrants to develop their businesses looking for applicants 

Now entering its eighth year, the Back for Business programme will run from February to June 2025

Aisling McVeigh, DANU Communications & Events Ltd, Dublin, Thomas Barr, LEAD, and Barra Kelly, Dublin, at the Back for Business Forum in the Conrad Hotel, Dublin. Picture: Orla Murray/Coalesce

Back for Business, a free programme aimed at supporting Irish emigrants returning home to start and develop a business in Ireland, is seeking new applicants. 

The development programme, which is now in its eighth year, was created to support entrepreneurial activity among emigrants who recently returned to Ireland and is funded by the Irish Abroad Unit in the Department of Foreign Affairs.