The Unsinkable Entrepreneur: Charity Event in Aid of Atlantic Youth Trust

The Unsinkable Entrepreneur

Charity Event in Aid of Atlantic Youth Trust

Tues 21st April – The Lark Concert Hall, Dublin

PREMIERE FILM SCREENING, PANEL DISCUSSION & MORE

Following international acclaim and an award-winning North American premiere for Best International Documentary at the 2025 Newport Beach Film Festival, The Unsinkable Entrepreneur makes its long-awaited Irish debut at The Lark Concert Hall on Tuesday 21st April 2026.

Step aboard for an evening that celebrates the spirit of resilience, leadership, and adventure in aid of Atlantic Youth Trust. The Unsinkable Entrepreneur charts the extraordinary journey of Enda O’Coineen, entrepreneur, sailor, and fearless optimist whose story has inspired audiences around the world.

Guests will arrive to a warm welcome with canapés and drinks from 6:30pm, setting the tone for an elegant and energising night. A short musical interlude will open the formal programme with a performance by multi-international award-winning Maynooth University Chamber Choir, preparing the audience for a special Irish premiere preview screening of the film. Following the screening, the night deepens with an on-stage interview panel, featuring remarkable leaders and visionaries including Hannah Shields (first Northern Irish woman to climb Mount Everest), Patrick Moran (ocean racer) alongside Enda himself. Together they will explore themes of entrepreneurship, navigating uncertainty, daring leadership, and what it really means to be “unsinkable” in life and in business.

With an audience of entrepreneurs, leaders, sailing and nautical enthusiasts, EY alumni, and adventure-driven individuals, the event becomes not just a film night but a gathering of people who understand the power of resilience, risk, creativity, and ambition.

The Unsinkable Entrepreneur Trailer

Meet The Panelists

Enda O’Coineen

Enda O’Coineen is an Irish entrepreneur, adventurer and pioneering sailor whose career spans business innovation and extreme endurance.

With a passion for the legacy of explorer Ernest Shackleton, he turned his focus to ocean racing, becoming the first Irish sailor to complete the Vendée Globe nonstop, solo, around-the-world race. His remarkable resilience, leadership and appetite for challenge are captured in the documentary film The Unsinkable Entrepreneur. Inspiring audiences worldwide with his extraordinary story.

Hannah Shields

Hannah Shields is an Irish endurance athlete and explorer, renowned as the first woman from Northern Ireland to summit Mount Everest in 2007. An orthodontist by profession, she balances clinical work with elite training and expeditions. Hannah has completed over fifty marathons and ultra-marathons, skied to the North Magnetic Pole, and raced across polar terrain. Her achievements mark her as one of Northern Ireland’s most accomplished modern adventurers, with resilience, curiosity, and relentless determination worldwide.

Patrick Moran

Irish sailor Patrick “Paddy” Moran is a fully fledged ocean racer who sailed around the world as part of the winning Ha Long Bay Vietnam team in the 2023–2024 Clipper Round the World Race. Competing in over 40,000 nautical miles, six ocean crossings and fourteen races across eleven months, Moran embraced the challenge to step back from daily life, reconnect with adventure, and prove that pushing beyond comfort zones reveals untapped potential within himself always.