Looking forward: Local entrepreneurship to turn the tide and boost job creation

Kieran Moynihan of CIT says we must create conditions for more jobs, writes John Daly.

THE huge increase in the number of unemployed people has posed an era-defining challenge to Ireland, and so far we have failed to make serious headway on generating job-creation momentum that will seriously impact these figures, according to Kieran Moynihan, Entrepreneur-in-residence, Cork Institute of Technology.

“Many economists have forecast a ‘jobless recovery’ for Ireland,” he says. “I strongly believe that we simply cannot accept this as an option...”