Student puts his best foot forward with sneaker idea

Mark Cahill is a 16-year-old entrepreneur with an idea that manages to balance fashion sense with cost-cutting cuteness.

A transition-year student at St Brendan’s College, Killarney, he has reached the last batch of contestants in the Young Entrepreneur programme at the Tralee Institute of Technology.

Having pitched his idea to a panel of Dragons that included Nora Casey and Jerry Kennelly last Friday, he now awaits, along with 15 other contestants, the final winner’s award on May 3.