ONE hundred of Ireland’s top businesspeople are being asked to serve on the country’s state boards for free.

ONE hundred of Ireland’s top businesspeople are being asked to serve on the country’s state boards for free.

One hundred top-ranking business chiefs from around the world are to offer to help run Irish state agencies free of charge.

BRIAN CONLON, the founder and chief executive of Newry firm First Derivatives plc, is the 13th Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.