Manure proves a cash cow for Leitrim students

Two young entrepreneurs with a scheme to convert cow manure to cash will represent Ireland at a global youth entrepreneurship showcase in New York attended by Chelsea Clinton.

Manure proves a cash cow for Leitrim students

Cousins Linda and Clare Dolan, 17 and 16, have devised a way of turning cow manure into odourless fuel briquettes and set up a business, Mure, through the Foróige Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (FNTE).

The fifth-year students from St Clare’s Comprehensive School in Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim, who come from a farming background, will represent Ireland at the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship’s (NFTE) global showcase celebrating youth entrepreneurship in New York this March.

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