Well done to #limerick's Nell Stritch. Young business now making noise nationally! live95fm.ie/news/live95-news…

The first annual #ResonanceTalks Festival took place in September. We welcomed a bunch of wonderful people to the twin towns of Ballina Killaloe on the shores of Lough Derg for talks, music, connection and adventure. We could not have done so without the following organisations who did so much to support us; @StFlannansCath @ClareCoCo @TipperaryCoCo @Failte_Ireland @discoverlderg @stayatlakeside @keepersolutions And to the best sponsors, advocates and advisors a fledgling festival like ours could ever hope for, a million thank yous again to @irdggroup and @ResolvePartners. Here's a quick roundup of images from this year! (Thanks to @DarrenRyanPhoto for his beautiful imagery). Videos coming soon, we promise :)

On Saturday we ran the first ever NDRC Startup Sprint, powered by the RDI Hub. Limerick was the location for this incredible day. From 10am to 5.30pm, the energy in the building was electric. We had 14 teams come up with ideas and develop prototypes during the day with the support of mentors. It was amazing to see the creativity and innovation shown by the participants. This was evident when they demonstrated their prototypes to our esteemed judges in the evening. This day would not have happened without the support from the team at the RDI Hub, the NDRC, Michael MacCurtain from Limerick Chamber Skillnet, and the incredible team from Immersive Software Engineering, Roisin Lyons, PhD and Alison McDevitt. The ISE building is unbelievable. The judges on the day were Rajesh Biddala, Maeve Lyons and John Savage. We were joined by brilliant mentors that supported the teams throughout the day. The mentors included Chris Kelly, Gareth Morrissey, Tony Foote, Eoin Walsh, Liam Mulcahy, Eoghan Mulcahy, Peter Hunt, Veronica Breene, Ben Fitzgerald Kiely, Sarah Walker, John Roche, André Balico, and Joe Gorman. Huge thanks to Liam Cronin for giving me the opportunity to organise an event like this.