By Róise Collins FIFTEEN years ago this month, two West Donegal brothers celebrated their first official sale of handcrafted wooden pens. Ronan and Conor McGarvey were just 13 and 10 years old when their journey as young entrepreneurs began in their garden shed. Their first stockists were two local craft outlets: Ionad Cois Locha in […]
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Ronan and Conor secure bursary on Dragons Den
THE two young entrepreneurs behind the West Donegal business Donegal Pens secured themselves a major financial boost on tonight’s ‘Junior’ edition of RTÉ One’s Dragons’ Den.
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TOMORROW night (Saturday) the young Donegal entrepreneurs to be featured in a special ‘Junior’ edition of RTÉ’s Dragons’ Den will be attending a special ‘red carpet’ screening of the edited programme in Dublin.