It was clearly going to be a huge industry. Phillip McGlade was confident of that when he started planning six years ago.  He had to be because the amount of capital expenditure needed was vast. McGlade had seen the statistic that one in six couples would struggle to conceive, had heard from his friends about the destructive cost of IVF and knew that half of Irish IVF cycles were happening overseas as a result.  The argument for a new kind of fertility clinic in Ireland was convincing.  At 32.5 years, Ireland has the oldest average age for mothers in the…

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