Ireland South East Winners at at EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards

Ireland South East based companies are celebrating success at the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Sharon Cunningham and Orlaith Ryan of Tipperary-based Shorla Oncology have been named the 2024 EY Entrepreneurs Of The Year. While Ivor Queally from Waterford, of the QK Group South Africa was named 2024 EY International Entrepreneur Of The Year.

The announcement was made at the annual gala awards ceremony which took place at the Powerscourt Hotel, Co. Wicklow.  Sharon and Orlaith were also named as winners in the emerging category at this year’s awards.

Sharon and Orlaith  are Co-Founders of Shorla Oncology. Headquartered in Clonmel, Shorla Oncology is a specialty pharmaceutical company that develops and commercialises innovative oncology drugs for orphan and paediatric cancers.

The company’s growing portfolio (including four products which are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ‘FDA’ and currently on the US market) brings accessible, affordable and life-saving treatments to patients, delivering a major contribution to patient care.

Shorla Oncology will now go on to represent Ireland at the World Entrepreneurs event in Monte Carlo in 2025. Both Sharon and Orlaith are past employees of Eirgen Pharma in Waterford, whose founders Tom Brennan and Patsy Carney were EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalists back in 2008.

Ivor Queally is a director of one of Ireland’s largest privately owned agri-businesses, with multi-disciplined food manufacturing facilities located throughout Ireland, the United Kingdom, Europe and Southern Africa.