Saturday 30th January 2010

Waiting to see if winner all right - From left Neil Dawson, Brian Darcy, Anne Doyle, Shane Byrne and Chris Curran of Delta Index

I'M A CELEB, GET MY CASH OUT OF HERE!
Shane Byrne, Anne Doyle and Fr Brian D'Arcy werein studio for the finale of the 3 month long challenge. Shane Byrne makes € 73,000 to win with a staggering €73,777.50, yielding a return of 268% in his 3 month run. Larry Gogan announced the winner and neither Business presenter John Murray, nor the contestants had any idea in advance. Brian Darcy came second with a final balance of €72,059, a massive 260% return in 3 months. Anne Doyle turned €8,000 profit on her initial €20,000 investment- a 40% return in just 3 months. Leitrim resident and web designer, Neil Dawson, won the listeners competition turning his initial 2-20 grand into nearly ½ million , or €454,421 to be exact.

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Miriam McGrath of Wicklow Hospice taking the €5000 cheque from winner Shane Byrne and Chris Curran of Delta Index

Helena Christiansen,,.The Scandinavian model the employers and unions should be looking at?

WOULD YOU LIKE YOUR COLUMN SHAKEN OR STIRRED?
Mrs Moneypenny is a former investment banker and has an MBA from the London Business School and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. But really, she writes a weekly column in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine. She is coming over to Dublin in February to talk to HR managers in Aviva, but John Murray reckoned as this is a private event, the public deserved to hear from her as well..
She is a visiting professor at Cass, City University Business School, and a trustee of a major educational charity. She is married to a wine merchant who plays a lot of golf, and has three children who she refers to as the Cost Centres. Mrs M began writing for the Financial Times in 1999 while still based in Tokyo. Subsequently, she returned to the UK and bought into a small but profitable business in the West End of London, where she was the youngest and worst-groomed of four owner-directors. She later led a management buyout and is now the majority owner. She is the author of Mrs Moneypenny: Survival in the City (2003), and Mrs Moneypenny: Email from Tokyo, (2006).
Websites: www.mrsmoneypenny.com or www.ft.com/arts/columnists/mrsmoneypenny

BEAN IN THE VAN
Clayre Roche drives a commercial jeep for Dublin firm Oakline, who design, make and install fitted furniture.. Clayre is the 4th generation of the Roche family in Oakline. Walk in wardrobes are the big thing at the moment, apparently inspired by Sex and the City, and they have provided fitted furnishings to the stars.. Bono's Clarence Hotel, Pat Kenny's Study and so on. John Murray caught up with her on some double yellow line near their showrooms in Dublin's Ranelagh.
OAKLINE FURNITURE
8, Ranelagh,
Dublin 6
Tel :085 8543578 01-
Email :info@oakline.ie
Website: www.oakline.ie

NINA DIVITO

MANOLO, YER WAN IS HOT ON YOUR HEELS!
Nina Divito is one of Ireland's top shoe designers, and you may have seen her shoes on the red carpet this week when Saiorse Ronan wore a pair of Nina's creations at the premiere of "The Lovely Bones" She started as an artist and her shoe paintings were a hit ,,,so why not make the move to making shoes.. and while they may not be cheap, they certainly are making waves.
Tel: 01 2024557
Email: info@ninadivito.com
Website : www. ninadivito.com

Saiorse Ronan and her dad- she's the one wearing Nina's shoes!

TOP OF THE SHILLELAGH TO YOU
John was at the Enterprise Ireland Showcase event in the RDS where Irish craft producers and foreign buyers were haggling with each other for four days during the week. Mail order is still a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, where the longest-established mail order company is Hammacher Schlemmer and their Director of Merchandising, Robert Bohlin, was at the RDS, where he met Sean Galvin of Lee Valley Ireland .. and what was in demand? Why, shillelaghs of course!
Lee Valley Ireland
Inchigeela,
Co Cork
Tel:026 49170
Email: sean@leevalley.ie
Web: www.leevalley.ie
Hammacher Schlemmer
Email: robertb@hammacher.com
Web: www.hammacher.com