The winners of the Dublin City Finals of Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur 2016 were announced on 5th December 2016 in the Mansion House, Dublin. These awards, supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, are an integral part of the Action Plan for Jobs.
127 applications were received. The awards were conferred in three main categories and were selected from a list of fifteen shortlisted entries.
The winner of the Best New Idea category was Brian Henderson, Baon Diagnostics, http://www.baondiagnostics.com The winner of the Best Start Up category was Sam Dinnegan, Strong Roots http://strongroots.ie and Paul McDonald, Sonitus Systems http://www.sonitussystems.com won the Best Established Investment category. The overall winner for the Dublin City Best Young Entrepreneur 2016 was Sam Dinnegan, of Strong Roots.
Each Dublin City winner will now progress to the Regional finals to be held in January 2017 in which they will compete to go through to National finals. Ultimately, they will compete to be named Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur.
