Your Call competition winners hire just 1 person

BILLED as a project that would “transform our economy”, the two successful Your Country Your Call projects have hired just a single member of staff, over a year after the two winners were announced.

Neil Leyden’s Digital Media Centre and a Data Island Strategy, proposed by father-and-son team Cianán Clancy and Colm MacFhlannachadha, beat about 9,000 entries to be declared winners in September 2010.

They received a cash prize of €100,000 and a development fund of €500,000 earmarked to implement each proposal, a process that was supposed to be completed by September 30 this year.