FEATURE: Sisters are doing it for themselves

As Dragons’ Den returns, Sue Leonard meets three women who shunned the recession to go it alone in business

WITH Ireland still deep in recession, and the crippled banks wary of lending, you’d think nobody would start a new business; but according to the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Report, 2,200 people a month started a business in Ireland in 2011.

The hit RTÉ show Dragons’ Den returns this weekend, prompting many viewers to say ‘I should have done that’, and propelling many new entrepreneurs into action.