Wesley O’ Regan is the General Manager of Popscene in Voodoo Rooms, Cork city. Popscene opened last November and is Cork’s only themed bar that is dedicated to celebrating the best of the 80s and 90s. https://www.facebook.com/PopsceneCork/

I’m owner and manager at No 1 Pery Square Hotel and Spa and I began this journey over 10 years ago now.

Hosting the Euro-Pro Tour golf event at Tulfarris for the past two years has been a great experience.

I am the restaurant manager in Sheen Falls Lodge. I have been the manager since the beginning of 2018.

With it being a family business, I was always involved at a management level from the beginning and as a chartered accountant by qualification, I always have one eye on the figures!

Emer Corridan is the general manager at the award-winning four-star, Cahernane House Hotel in Killarney, Co. Kerry.

Sinéad McCarthy is the general manager at The Brehon Hotel and here she gives us an insight into her working life.

Virginia Fortune is the general manager of both the 1878 and The Premium Club — Private Members’ Clubs at 3Arena.

Antonia Smyth is wedding co-ordinator at the Bridge House Hotel, Tullamore.

I worked in sales as a rep for 33 years with Beamish and Crawford in Cork. I fell into hospitality by accident when offered a part-time job as a caddy on the golf course here in Mount Juliet.

I have always been hugely interested in being part of the beauty industry and I trained as a beauty and body therapist.

I was educated in Dublin where I studied marketing and design in Mountjoy Square but after I graduated, I took the decision to emigrate to Portugal for five years.

I am an aesthetician at the Institute of Dermatologists, Ballsbridge. As part of my Biologique Recherche trainer role, I travel within Ireland to train aestheticians on the skin care products and practical skills needed to work with the Biologique Recherche range.

When I was in secondary school I started working part-time as a waitress and I suppose I caught the hospitality bug back then.

Trevor Sheehan is guest relations manager at Castlemartyr Resort in Cork. Castlemartyrresort.ie

Réidín Aherne is director of operations at SAGE Midleton restaurant and festival co-ordinator for fEast Cork Food & Drink Festival, which runs until September 8. www.feastcork.ie

Meet Lisa O’Doherty, the chief sommelier at The K Club.

Sandra Murphy is group event creation and production manager with Trigon Hotel Group in Cork