{"id":207915,"date":"2025-11-30T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/207915\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:25:12","slug":"the-sunday-independent-30-under-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/207915\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sunday Independent 30 Under 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">&#8220;From using AI to anticipate food trends, to inventing new sweets, and designing for global stars, Ireland&#8217;s next generation has the world at its feet\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Front row, Sarah Jane Hughes, Bronagh Quinn, Paddy Morgan, Eniola Salami. Middle row, Leah Shanahan, Erica O\u2019Brien Murray, Nastya Kharytonova, Paul McGoldrick, Sadhbh McCarrick, Nadia Power, Abigail O\u2019Brien Murray. Back row, R\u00f3is\u00edn Heffernan, Mark Birrane, Oran O\u2019Flynn, Eve Lawler, Sam O\u2019Neill, Sean Allen, Rachel Maguire, Emer Sexton, Donagh \u00d3 Buachalla, David O\u2019Keeffe, Peter O\u2019Regan, Adam Brennan, Cathal D'Arcy, Aoife Drennan, Mihai Mesteru, Ciaran O\u2019Connor, Marc Simmonds, James Madden, Peter Kilmartin, Se\u00e1n Leddin. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/o be captioned 1101.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Front row, Sarah Jane Hughes, Bronagh Quinn, Paddy Morgan, Eniola Salami. Middle row, Leah Shanahan, Erica O\u2019Brien Murray, Nastya Kharytonova, Paul McGoldrick, Sadhbh McCarrick, Nadia Power, Abigail O\u2019Brien Murray. Back row, R\u00f3is\u00edn Heffernan, Mark Birrane, Oran O\u2019Flynn, Eve Lawler, Sam O\u2019Neill, Sean Allen, Rachel Maguire, Emer Sexton, Donagh \u00d3 Buachalla, David O\u2019Keeffe, Peter O\u2019Regan, Adam Brennan, Cathal D&#8217;Arcy, Aoife Drennan, Mihai Mesteru, Ciaran O\u2019Connor, Marc Simmonds, James Madden, Peter Kilmartin, Se\u00e1n Leddin. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p>Fearghal O&#8217;Connor, Sean Pollock and Rory McGinn<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland has more than its fair share of young entrepreneurs with big dreams in the world of business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Inspiration can be found easily. Patrick and John Collison were aged 21 and 19 when they came up with a prototype for global payment giant Stripe, a business now worth over $106bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;From using AI to anticipate food trends, to inventing new sweets, and designing for global stars, Ireland&#8217;s next&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,33201,19,17,6561,1265],"class_list":{"0":"post-207915","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-rory-mcginn","14":"tag-sean-pollock"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115638405165739739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}