Wendy Slattery worked as a corporate account manager in Eircom for eight years before becoming an entrepreneur in the boom with her party management company Party Mad, which she co-founded with her sister Tracy Leavy in 2005. They ran the company for 11 years and employed 16 people until it went into liquidation in 2016. “In 2016 we over traded,” she says honestly. “We actually opened a store that was a disaster. We pulled the cash flow from the rest of the business and we went into liquidation around Christmas in 2016.” According to Slattery, there were a huge amount…

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