Student a ‘shoe-in’ for top enterprise award

A TRANSITION year student with designs on success has won the top award at the Student Enterprise Awards National Finals in Dublin yesterday.

Tara Haughton, a 16-year-old student from Cross and Passion College in Kilcullen, Co Kildare, and who trades under the name Rosso Solini, was named as the winner in the senior category at the awards after she produced stickers that can be used to create designer looking high-heel shoes.

Tara, who has made €65,000 since she started her business in November, said: “The fact that I won the competition has not sunk in yet. All I want to do now is keep the business going.”