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Enterprise Awards at Queen's University Belfast
Tuesday 11 April

Dr Dónal O’Mathúna
Celebrity Financial Expert, Doug Richard(left), BBC's Dragon's Den presenter, with the team from Dublin City University, Louise Kirke and Donal Foley

DCU students took second prize at the 2006 Student Enterprise Awards (Postgraduate Category) at Queens University on Friday 6 April 2006. Pictured with Celebrity Financial Expert, Doug Richard and BBC's Dragon's Den presenter, are Louise Kirke and Donal Foley of Dublin City University. Their company FonTic Ltd will create a paperless system of issuing tickets by electronically sending tickets to mobile phones. Louise and Donal began working on their project whilst studying Entrepreneurship on on the MSc in E-commerce and were nominated and mentored by Teresa Hogan (Lecturer in Enterprise Development DCUBS).

The competition was co-ordinated by Enterprise Ireland with sponsorship from Ulster Bank and Invest NI.