Eddie Dillon took his seat in a restaurant in Japan, surrounded by some of Ireland’s most accomplished and promising entrepreneurs — among them Edward McCloskey of WaterWipes, Áine Kennedy of The Smooth Company, and James Kelly of LMH Engineering.  It was May, and Dillon was there as a finalist in the Emerging Category of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2025. He had already been inspired by conversations with Brian O’Sullivan, the 2021 overall winner, who transformed the Zeus Group — a manufacturing and distribution giant — into a €500 million-a-year business employing more than 1,300 people. Now he…

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