We’ve taken one great food staple — the spud — from Central and South America and made it our own. And now we’re set to do likewise with the tortilla: an equity investment programme launches tonight to fund the very first real corn tortilla manufacturing plant in Europe.

A MOTHER has turned a homemade device she designed to help her daughter cope with dyslexia into a business project that could offer the same assistance to thousands of children.

Three out of four Dublin County Enterprise Boards have no more funds to support new start-ups.