Sometimes, all you can do is sit back, take a deep breath, and regroup. And that is exactly what happened to Tom Ryan when the pandemic shuttered the economy in March 2020. For the previous decade, Ryan had run The Smart Group, a Tipperary-based business that provided marketing and printing services to retail brands and retailers. It was the perfect marriage for his talents; a marketing consultant by training, he had worked with a string of leading retailers over the years. However, when the economy shuttered, so too did the demand for his business. “We had a great run right…

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