THE REDUNDANT PROFESSIONAL

Ivan Sheridan worked for years as a qualified carpenter but saw the writing on the wall for the property sector in advance of the crash.

“I could see that the building game was slowing down. I didn’t realise it was going to be so drastic,” he says now, while reflecting on the businesses he set up since leaving the trade — a pub and shop in Kells, Co Kilkenny, and, most recently, Kilkenny City Tours.

The tour consists of a “train” ride through the heart of the Marble City and, with well over a dozen historic and picturesque sights to be seen, has gone down well with the visitor market.