Inner City Enterprise Awards 2017: Winners revealed
The second Inner City Enterprise Awards were presented at a reception attended by Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar in the Jameson Distillery Bowe St, Smithfield this week
Print12 May 2017
The Inner City Enterprise Awards were established to advise and assist unemployed people in Dublin’s inner city to set up their own businesses or to create direct self-employment.
Supported by KPMG and AL Goodbody, the ICE Awards are open to all Inner City Enterprise clients who currently own, control and manage their own business.
The winners of the awards were:
- Best Female Entrepreneur: Helen Walsh, who set up Fitness, Wellness and Coaching with the help of The Inner City Enterprise in 2014. Helen Walsh is an international health coach, personal trainer and one of the nation’s leading health and wellness experts.
- Best Male Entrepreneur: Daniel Cantwell, who won the awards for his business Ben & Anvil, a Dublin-based creative post-production studio offering visual effects, motion graphics and animation services. Daniel set up the studio with his wife, Ailbhe, in 2015.
- The ICE Award for Best Newcomer: Russell Simmons for The Greedy Pig, which began life as a blog in 2010. The website showcases the best of music, art and culture in Ireland and beyond. Since then it has grown into a collective that spans events, a record label and an online publication.
“ICE originally decided to hold an awards event to acknowledge and reward its clients many of whom have struggled against the odds to get a business established and then keep it up and running,” said Evanne Kilmurray, CEO of ICE. “We are delighted with the short-list we have for this year’s awards. The winners are a true reflection of the work of ICE, but also of the determination, creativity and truly positive mind-set of the finalists.
“Irrespective of the outcome on the night,” Kilmurray said, “all of our clients and those shortlisted are all winners.”
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