{"id":263227,"date":"2025-11-05T01:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263227\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:36:09","slug":"irish-entrepreneur-praised-after-appearing-on-rte-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/263227\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish entrepreneur praised after appearing on RT\u00c9 show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no slowing \u00c1ine Kennedy down since her brand, The Smooth Company, first launched just three years ago in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneur&#8217;s products have been <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/01\/13\/entertainment\/molly-mae-hague-irish-product\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">used by big names such as Molly-Mae Hague<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2025\/04\/10\/style\/beauty\/trinny-woodall-irish-beauty-brand\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">backed by well-known faces in the beauty industry like Trinny Woodall<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, \u00c1ine and her sister Emer, and <a href=\"https:\/\/evoke.ie\/2023\/06\/23\/style\/beauty\/smooth-stick-sisters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their &#8216;secret weapon&#8217;, grandad Billy<\/a>, were invited to appear on RT\u00c9&#8217;s The Entrepreneurs and received immense praise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5_c0f119.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Aine Kennedy\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2060796\"  \/>Pic: \u00c1ine Kennedy\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>The Entrepreneurs is a four-part series that celebrates the 2025 EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalists, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesmoothcompany.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Smooth Company<\/a> being one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1ine shared a sweet snap with her grandad Billy, pointing at the TV screen. Another photo shows the Irish entrepreneur&#8217;s family and friends sat in the living room to watch the episode.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/snapins-ai_3758442760748145003_38bf7b.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: \u00c1ine Kennedy\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2060816\"  \/>Pic: \u00c1ine Kennedy\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1ine wrote: &#8216;The biggest thank you for all of the lovely messages since our episode of The Entrepreneurs aired last night on @rteone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The reaction has been overwhelming, and I am still trying to get back to all the messages!! We appreciate every single one.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/snapins-ai_3758442761519933784.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: Aine Kennedy\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2060795\"  \/>Pic: \u00c1ine Kennedy\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We were so thrilled to be featured alongside the amazing Eoin from @bread41bakery and Martin from @seating_matters and are so grateful to @eoyireland @rteone @loosehorse.tv for this amazing opportunity and to be part of this show highlighting some of the amazing Irish businesses we have in this country and the importance of entrepreneurship.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I am already counting down the days to next week&#8217;s episode!! You won\u2019t want to miss it,&#8217; she continued.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/snapins-ai_3319171179557019465.jpg\" alt=\"Pic: \u00c1ine Kennedy\/Instagram\" class=\"wp-image-2060826\"  \/>Pic: \u00c1ine Kennedy\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, \u00c1ine&#8217;s brain is the genius behind the Smooth Stick, a product that\u00a0smoothes flyaway hair\u00a0to give a sleek hairstyle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no slowing \u00c1ine Kennedy down since her brand, The Smooth Company, first launched just three years ago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,63,99,198],"class_list":{"0":"post-263227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}