Our guest on this episode of the Guaranteed Irish Stories podcast is Patrick Cotter, CEO and founder of Rural Wifi.

Rural Wifi is an alternative wifi provider based in Ireland that has already been part of the team that brought wifi to the Aran Islands. Not only that, the company supports the largest transport wifi network in the UK and Ireland. Before Rural Wifi, its founder Patrick Cotter had founded Fleet Connect, a trailblazing company which at one point in 2013 had the largest wifi network in the world. He shares his advice to young entrepreneurs and business people, describing how his humble beginnings in the Dublin fruit markets, gave him a rock solid foundation that has served him very well in the world of business.

On the Guaranteed Irish Stories podcast we speak to trailblazers from the Guaranteed Irish business community about how their businesses stay competitive in a global marketplace, what it stands for, its contribution to the local community and its support for Irish jobs.

Our guest on this episode of the Guaranteed Irish Stories podcast is Lisa Kennedy from Tourist SOS.

Having recently rebranded from the Irish Tourist Assistance Service (ITAS), Tourist SOS is expanding, with ambitions to move into Europe. It is a free, nationwide service that is unique to Ireland and dedicated to helping international tourists who experience a crime or other distressing incident whilst here.

On the Guaranteed Irish Stories podcast we speak to trailblazers from the Guaranteed Irish business community about how their businesses stay competitive in a global marketplace, what it stands for, its contribution to the local community and its support for Irish jobs.

Our guest on this episode of the Guaranteed Irish Stories podcast is MarieAnn McLoughlin Dwyer, a Co-Founder of Runway 28 Gin.

She tells us the story behind her small-batch, premium, artisan gin blended by Listoke Distillery in County Louth. The gin is inspired by the world of aviation and indeed MarieAnn is a former air-hostess, she is married to a pilot, so it’s a world that she knows very well. Her ambitions for the brand lie in expansion into the United States, and also their new chocolate range!

On the Guaranteed Irish Stories podcast we speak to trailblazers from the Guaranteed Irish business community about how their businesses stay competitive in a global marketplace, what it stands for, its contribution to the local community and its support for Irish jobs.