An AnCO training course offers a helping hand to people looking to start their own business.
Graduation day for twenty seven young people who completed a fifteen week course in self-employment run by the national training council AnCO (An Comhairle Oiliúna).
The young people received their certificates from Superquinn managing director Fergal Quinn, and are now equipped with the skills to help them be self-employed.
Fresh ideas and locating niche markets were a course pre-requisite. Michelle Hughes will now develop her maternity wear business further and is confident about the future as,
There's no-one in Ireland really doing it.
Vincent Morgan is restoring antique furniture and believes that it is possible to make a living from it,
If you get the proper customers.
Michael Moore is currenlty unemployed but hopes to take his father’s hobby of making wooden toys into a viable business idea. Cairin O’Connor had previously worked for a food distribution company. She is ready now to go it alone, marketing Irish cheeses.
AnCo plans to extend this course across the country, senior training advisor Pat Kelly Rodgers believes a demand exists for basic business skills and that people are looking for,
A helping hand.
Dave Walsh who is a training consultant maintains that as the course covers all aspects of running a business its graduates have,
A very realistic chance at succeeding.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 2 July 1984. The reporter is Alasdair Jackson.
