24 August 2022FeaturesInfluential Women in IPMuireann Bolger

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Alice Stephenson’s journey to IP career success is an inspirational one. Pregnant at 18, and disowned and left homeless by her family, she ignored those who dismissed her dream of a successful professional career as she became a teenage mother.

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