It is an old adage that family businesses are the backbone of the Irish economy, but the true strength of it is perhaps less well recognised. There are 170,000 of them across the country, and they employ more than double the Foreign Direct Investment and State sector combined.  It’s an enormous and disparate sector, run on a unique type of commitment. But one of the problems family businesses encounter is that they are too often isolated, so busy and dedicated to their work they don’t have capacity to connect with others who may be going through, or have gone through,…

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