Join us for our first Women In Business networking event of 2020, where we will celebrate International Women's Day in the Mullingar Park Hotel on Friday 6th March 2020 - we will once again be joined by our colleagues from Longford and Leitrim!!

The event will finish with a short presentation from a local business from each of the Counties outlining their business followed by light refreshments.

• MC Pat Murphy, Chair of the Tri-County Network
• Niamh S. Barry, The Fairy Door Company
• Melanie Boylan, STOMP Social Media Training
• Cathy Moran, Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (6 mins)
• 1 Business from each of Counties who will give a 6 min pitch on their business

Niamh S. Barry, The Fairy Door Company

Niamh Sherwin Barry is the founder of The Irish Fairy Door Company and Brand Messaging consultancy - The Content Fairy. With years of experience in building a brand nearly exclusively through story-telling, Niamh has successfully mentored SMEs around the country on how to really get their brand message to truly land with their customers.  Niamh heads up brand, social media and PR for The Irish Fairy Door Company.

Melanie Boylan, STOMP Social Media Training

Melanie Boylan is a Social Media Trainer and Manager, a Freelance Journalist and main team member with Irish Tech News, Contributor to StartUp Mindset.com, Mentor and Sponsor of the Women's Inspire Network, two time winner of the Best Business to Business Award with Micro Business Awards and wife and mother to two girls. Since starting her business in 2013, Melanie has pushed herself each year to the edge of her comfort zone to build her business and add to her expertise and experience.

Cathy Moran, Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection.

Cathy Moran, DEASP Employer Liaison and EURES Adviser, Mullingar, Midlands Region. I assist employers with their recruitment needs and advise them on the department’s supports and services available to small business and start up’s.

Meet Our Female Entrepreneurs 

• Longford: Alison Harney – Cooper Owl Creative

Copper Owl Creative  is a full-service design and visual communications agency based in Longford, Ireland.  Our mission is to help your business stand proudly out from the crowd.  We work with entrepreneurs, corporate clients and SME’s to create vibrant branding they love.Copper Owl Creative is here to show you how to reach the customers that need your service, just by shaping your story and expertise into an easy to understand, highly attractive and memorable message.

• Leitrim: Sinead Gillard, Jinny's Bakery, Drumshanbo

When Sinead (Jinny) Gillard returned from her travels to her native Drumshanbo, Co Leitrim in 2003 she started baking bread and cakes, and a friend urged her to try a few local shops and see if they’d sell. Sell they did, like the proverbial hot cakes, and a star brand was born. In her first week Sinead sold 16 loaves under the Jinny’s brand, and while miracles don’t happen in the business world, and success is always hard-earned, it has been a roller coaster ride for the Gillards. The awards have come flooding in and Jinny’s now produces 15,000 loaves and at least 5000 scones every week. The recently opened Jinny’s tearooms, beside the bakery, has provided a valuable shop window for the products . Jinny's Bakery now have a staff of 12 helping to run the artisan business.

• Westmeath: Olivia Curran, An Olivia Chocolate

Olivia Curran the chocolatier behind An Olivia Chocolate is a self confessed chocoholic so what better way to indulge her foodie passion than set up her own artisan chocolate business!.  Hailing from Monilea, outside Mullingar Olivia has a Diploma in Food Quality Assurance, and following this completed a chocolate patisserie course in London with renowned French chocolatier Phillipe Manard.  Setting herself apart from other chocolate makers in terms of quality, design, personal service and breadth of range she loves dreaming up new flavours, new products and opportunities to enjoy chocolate. 

Please note that we may take pictures and/or make video and audio recordings at this event, in which you may be featured. By attending the event, you give the organisers the right to use such material for non-commercial purposes, including the posting of photos and/or videos on our website(s).

We look forward to seeing you all on the day...