CATEGORY: Emerging - The Irish Timesis profiling the 24 finalists in the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year competition. The second four of the eight finalists in the emerging category are featured this week.

They will be followed by the finalists in the industry category who will appear on subsequent Mondays. The winners in the three categories of international, emerging and industry and the overall winner will be announced on October 25th at a ceremony televised by RTÉ.

The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year is run in association with Ulster Bank, Enterprise Ireland, InterTradeIreland, Invest Northern Ireland and Digicel.