Edel Lyons News Today

More women are taking the leap into business ownership in Ireland. For start-ups using support from Enterprise Ireland, the 2012 statistics were stark, with just 8% of applicants being female. However, by 2022 it had increased to 37%. Siobhán Howe speaks to the female owners of some Irish businesses that have been set up in the last five years to hear their stories — the challenges, the sacrifices, the determination, and at the core the love of what they do that drives them to continue.

The Irish start-up, which was created by Edel Lyons, has gone from strength to strength since it first launched - and it is now on its second collection.

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Maya Olsen has the kind of knockout personal style that people literally stop her in the street to admire. The stylist has an impeccable eye for picking up quirky, unusual pieces and now she has launched her own website, Nobody’s Empire, which, she says, “is a land where vintage rules”. The day we chat, Maya is on the receiving end of lots of admiring glances on Dublin’s fashion-forward Drury Street for her Versace-esque boots which, for the record, she picked up on Depop. I wasn’t at...