Monday, June 12, 2006
Irishman lifts world entreprenuer award…
Bill Lynch, a native of Ballybunion has lifted the top honour in the Ernst & Young 2006 World Entrepreneur Of The Year. A long time resident of South Africa he was one of two Irishmen who’d taken national honours, the other being Aidan Heavey of UK-listed Tullow Oil.
Mick Fealty @ 07:20 AM
Mick
The guy who won the apprentice last week was half Irish.(He was half lebanese as well, so undoubtedly has an interesting time getting through customs)
Posted by on Jun 12, 2006 @ 09:49 AMInteresting that he made his fortune under the aparteid regime in RSA.
Posted by on Jun 12, 2006 @ 10:56 AMNow, now. I’m sure he channelled lots of his money over the years to anti-apartheid organisations.
Posted by on Jun 12, 2006 @ 12:34 PMHe’s about as Irish as I am. And I’ve been in Belfast (and other places on your island when I went missing) more recently than him.
Posted by on Jun 12, 2006 @ 04:43 PMYes. William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) has been identified as Irish as well, as were the psychosexual murderers known as the Shankill Butchers. I don’t really want to bask in their association either. Wouldn’t it be better not to draw attention to power-driven anti-social beings like these?
I mean, you wouldn’t let your daughter marry an entrepreneur now would you?
Posted by on Jun 12, 2006 @ 07:04 PMGoing up in the world we are :)
Posted by on Jun 12, 2006 @ 09:36 PMRead in the paper yesterday that he went to the RSA on an assisted passage from the Apartheid govt.
Maybe it was a bit too easy for white boys without basic mathematical skills to make it then - he was quoted as saying that 80% of the businesses he became involved with were successful, 15% satifactory and 10% very bad!
Posted by on Jun 13, 2006 @ 09:23 AM
