Noelle O’Connor walked into the Irish Dragons’ Den just over a decade ago. Since then, she has been hailed as the most successful contestant to appear on the show after securing investment from Gavin Duffy and building an empire on eco-friendly self-tan product TanOrganic. In August 2018, however, she revisited the Den, making her the first entrepreneur ever to appear on the show twice. O’Connor recalls how the entire experience lasts two and a half hours, yet viewers see it condensed into minutes. For her second visit to the Den, she went across the water to face the British Dragons,…

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