For years, Frank Carroll says people remembered seeing him on the Late Late Show, when his company Alfrank Designs became the official supplier to a newly confident Ireland discovering luxury furniture in the midst of the Celtic Tiger. Now he is nursing the wounds from a snub by his bank that led to examinership and, in his early 70s, re-engineering his business for the second time. In the meantime, he has led an extraordinary life between Ireland and China, taking his Dublin SME to the frontier of globalisation. Why keep going? “A lot of people seem to think that it’s…
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