Remarkable train of events sees rail networker get her business on track

She was at the railway station, waiting for the train back to Cork, not knowing if the meeting she had just completed in Dublin had been a success or a failure.

Success would mean getting the capital she and her business partner desperately needed if they were going to get their latest idea off the ground and turn it into a money-making business.

She had a pattern of dreaming up businesses, having set up MyTradesman.ie. In America, she would be called a serial entrepreneur. In Ireland, she would sometimes joke, that translated as “chancer”.