In the final programme in the series Enda O’Coineen – the unsinkable entrepreneur – is on a particular mission to help young people and show them that through sailing young people can learn the skills and discipline to help them through life. He has retuned to his native county Galway and hiding in plain sight he travels from the city, to Connemara and Inishmore – the largest of the Arran Islands – in search of people and groups that he can help. From cancer, to rural isolation and helping young people Enda covers a lot of ground as he encounters his native county in a way that he has never done before.
A force of nature in many ways Enda is highly engaging and very determined. He knows his own mind and has a great sense of fun if somewhat unconventional in his approach to life and work. His life story is all about taking risks and doing the unexpected. This goes back to his youth where he tried to row a dinghy single-handed from Boston to Ireland without telling anyone or later in life moving to the Czech Republic just after the fall of the Berlin wall. He does the unexpected but always it returns to sailing, which is his greatest passion. He would go on to complete is single handed Atlantic crossing and compete in round the world yacht races.
He is doing this series because he wants to help young people. He feels that it is important to find ways to help them before they get into trouble. Sail training vessels are used a lot in other countries as an outlet for vulnerable youths and he wants to transfer that model here. For one of his gifts he wants to find a group of young people and send them on a trip of a lifetime on New Zealand’s sail training vessel. This he does in a way that shocks the recipients and promises to be one of the most unexpected and original gifts given in the Secret Millionaire.