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Some 32,000 businesses were started last year with great expectations, writes John Daly

THE Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report for 2013 found that 32,000 people started businesses in Ireland last year, with one in 11 of the adult population engaged in some form of early stage entrepreneurial activity.

The findings show that the rate of early stage entrepreneurial activity is at its highest since the onset of the economic crisis, with the pipeline of those indicating that they intend to start a business in the next three years at its highest level since Ireland first became involved in Global Entrepreneurship Monitor research in 2000.