Four years ago, Patrick Duffy was ready to give up on Jospa, the Cork-based marine-tech business he co-founded with Joss Fitzsimons in 2008. The company had eaten into Duffy’s pension and the founders were failing to get their products to consumers. “We said, ‘are we wasting our time? Will we close down and pay everybody anything we owe?’ which would have been very little,” said Duffy. Before they threw in the towel however, the business partners had one more product idea that they believed had the potential to be used internationally. The product, the Jospa Tug, combats the level of…

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