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Entrepreneurial Talk & Niall Quinn Motivational Speech

  • 02-03-2010 11:13am
    #1
    Scráib
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 593 ✭✭✭


    I'm a DCU alumni who's feeling very alumnish today, last night I was at the Entrepreneurial talks in the Helix. And they were great!!

    Paul Kerley, (CEO, Norkom Technologies), Nicola Byrne (Managing Director of 11890) and Richard Stokes, (CEO, DCU Invent centre) were speaking each for about 15 minutes each. It was great, these lads are bona fida self-made entrepreneurs, and their attitude was basically 'Do it, it can be done, ignore the naysayers, get the thumb out'. Brilliant stuff!

    Niall Quinn gave a talk on Motivation. That lasted about ten minutes, after which it was mostly an hour of him telling us stories about his football career. The audience was in the horrors laughing for most of it, myself included, and while the motivation talk itself didn't exactly happen the end result was a hall of people in great form when he finished. He's a great public speaker actually is Niall Quinn!

    Anyway moral of the story, if DCU ever put anything like this on again, go! It's a great way to spend an evening! And thanks to the lads who organized it all.


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  • #2
    JoePie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭JoePie


    Yeah, I was at the Nial Quinn talk. Some seriously funny stuff. I do feel it could have been run a little better though. I didn't know until the last minute that I had to pay. I know there were flyers and everything around the place, but I was getting emails saying that alumni get in free. ANd I couldn't attend the other talk because no one told me it had sold out, even though I requested a seat almost a week in advance. And then I get moved around seats before the Niall Quinn talk, so apparently, seat numbers don't matter. Just a few little things that annoyed me. Had fun otherwise.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    We should start up a society that does this sort of thing regularly...


  • #4
    Cool Running
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 451 ✭✭Cool Running


    Legend of a talk alrite

    He really turned himself round after suffering from depression after the World Cup he could have easily got worse

    Might just out and buy a Sunderland jersey:D


  • #5
    Dj Stiggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Dj Stiggie


    Deleted User wrote: »
    We should start up a society that does this sort of thing regularly...

    That's a good idea, but doesn't the Journalism Soc do stuff like this?

    But with E&S gone, there's a gap for a soc that actually organises Entrepreneurial and Social events such as this one. I'm on board!


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