Carol O’Callaghan meets the man behind a thousand store fronts — the principal of architecture and design company, Douglas Wallace Consultants, and a man who’s become better known as a judge in ‘Home of the Year’.

Hoping for a quick flip in the fast food sector is an investor who aims to off-load a Cork city McDonald’s restaurant that he bought last year for over €4 million.

It’s got a Blue Chip tenant, it’s guiding €3.5 million — so, would you like fries with that?

From fashion designers to actors and businesswomen to models, the next generation of young Irish people has thrown up some significant talent across a range of professions. These young people are among a pool of highly-accomplished achievers whose remarkable successes to date are bucking recessionary trends and putting their country back on the map.

FORMER Formula One driver Eddie Irvine might be out of the fast lane, but he’s still wealthy enough to own a yacht, a helicopter, a plane and several Ferraris.