Timmy Boyle, owner of Atlantic Composites, a boat manufacturing business in Donegal’s Gaeltacht, has had a love of boats since he was a young boy. A native of Gaoth Dobhair, Timmy has been fortunate to have lived beside the Wild Atlantic Ocean most of life. In 1976, he travelled to London to pursue greener pastures […]
When Údarás na Gaeltachta gave RA Pacaisti Teo’s Operations Director, John McDermott, a temporary office in its’ own regional office in the heart of Donegal’s Gaeltacht back in 1997, to help him explore and deliver a new business opportunity, little did anyone know that this was a first step towards creating a multinational company that […]
Studio Donegal was founded by the Donaghy family in Cill Charthaigh nearly 40 years ago with the aim of maintaining and preserving the long running tradition of hand-weaving in south-west Donegal. The company was set up by Kevin Donaghy, an innovative designer weaver/spinner and his wife Wendy Donaghy, who both moved to Cill Charthaigh from Tullamore in Co. Offaly. Studio […]
Joe Coyle from Cill Ulta, Gort a’ Choirce, County Donegal left his home county and went to Dublin in 1993 to study journalism. Having completed his education in 1998 he was hired by Matt Cooper, who was then the editor of the Sunday Tribune. His design talent and his love of journalism led him to […]
Operating a global sock making industry from a rural part of South West Donegal’s Gaeltacht, just outside of Glenties, hasn’t hindered Martin Breslin growing his successful company Donegal Socks. Today, his company Stocaí Dhún na nGall exports over a 100,000 pairs of socks a year to markets around the world. In recent months his range of colourfully designed knitted socks […]