Damien English, the minister for state at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, has said he will “examine” the future of Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneurs (IBYE) competition after a number of leading business leaders expressed fears that it was going to be discontinued permanently. The competition, which ran between 2015 and 2019, has seen over 600 young entrepreneurs nationwide receive more than €8 million in funding before it was suspended in recent years due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the need for Local Enterprise Offices (LEO) to focus on helping businesses through the crisis. As the pandemic ended however…

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