Byline: by Patrice Harrington
LADIES beset by recession blues will be comforted to learn that there is light at the end of the... handbag.
LED Flexible Strip Silicone Series Silicone 5050Men who have silently cursed us for rooting endlessly in our totes to find lipstick, taxi money, keys, passport... will be relieved at this new invention - the bag with the bulb.
And the man who finally shed light on the situation? A tractor dealer from Roscommon.
Nonetheless, 30-year-old Adrian Keegan stepped boldly into RTE's Drag- impressed enough to take ons' Den this week to pitch his illuminating idea before those five venture capitalists and emerged intact, clasping k10,000 to take his design to the next level. Rather surprisingly the one Dragon who would have occasion to use such a device, DJ Carey's partner Sarah Newman, snubbed his idea, quickly proclaiming herself 'out'.
However, multimillionaire CEO of coffee chain Insomnia, Bobby Kerr, was impressed enough to take on Adrian, especially when the cheeky young inventor warned the Dragons against half-heartedness with the immortal line, 'Tis full duck or no dinner.' Last night Adrian spoke to the Mail from his home in Athleague, a small town on the River Suck, a word he was lucky not to hear from the panel of merciless Dragons when he presented his invention, though they did laugh at his sales pitch.
'I told them I got the idea from looking at girls using lighters to try and find things in their handbags in the dark and I was afraid they'd set fire to their hair,' said the father of two.
'Someone said mobile phones are doing a good job as lights now but you have to put down your mobile phone to get what you want out of the bag. What you really need is a hands-free lighting system inside in the bag, like a fridge.' Adrian's wife, Kathleen, who is too shy to appear in photographs, was the inspiration for his idea but although she has 'three or four bags - she doesn't go mad on them'.
'At night-time she would be going rooting in the bag trying to find things and if we were in the car, she would put on the interior light, which is pure dangerous. A lot of women do that when they're trying to find things in their bags and it could cause a crash,' he exclaimed.
'The whole thing only started out as a hobby with my sevenyear-old daughter Katelynn and my two-year-old son Tiernan.
'Katelynn helped me make the handbag in the sitting room in the evenings. She took it into school to show the teachers and they all said they wanted one.
'When I heard Dragon's Den was coming, I said, feck it, was I going to keep this thing a hobby or try and do something with it?' With his thick country brogue and tractor dealership, you can't help but wonder what Adrian's friends down in the pub make of his latest fad.
'Ah, sure, that's only pub talk and everyone would knock you. There was a lot of mocking and laughing. led tube light But, you know, you'd be a b******* if you did it and a b******* if you didn't do it,' he says, with a chuckle.
'So I said to myself, this recession is coming and I have to forget about asking the lads in the pub what they think. I have to think about my family and of doing something with this idea before someone else does it.
'But they're all delighted for me now. When I went on the Ryan Tubridy radio show, there were loads of texts from women wanting the bag. The response has been fantas
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