Next year promises to be a big one for 34-year-old Shane O’Sullivan. For the past seven years, he has turned a fledgling idea into a fully formed business with 25,000 customers. Now, though, he wants to take Healthwave, his digital pharmacy group, across Europe. From its base in Dundrum, Dublin 16, O’Sullivan currently employs 30 people, including a team of pharmacists, dispensing technicians and coders serving a growing community of people receiving their drugs directly to their homes. Using advanced robotics and pill dispensing machines, Healthwave creates bespoke pillpods for people that contain all the drugs they need for a…

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