Kilcullen means Business

This is a new section of the Kilcullen Diary which concentrates on enterprise and business in our town. Over coming weeks and months we will be adding links to our profiles of local businesses, of every size and activity, which will endeavour to showcase what Kilcullen has to offer in enterprise.



Reviving the neglected bathroom

"They don't pay much attention to bathrooms on TV programmes about home refurbishment," muses Ger Dooley of the Kildare Bathroom Company. "Yet they're the most cost effective way of giving a home a lift."

He's right. Even TV guru of home makeovers Dermot Bannon doesn't give bathrooms much programme space. Living rooms get into dispute, kitchen handles raise controversy, the colour or size of windows can apparently almost close down a build. But bathrooms just get, well, flushed away?

Not at the Kildare Bathroom Company. Business has grown steadily over the last three years at their premises in the Link Business Park, with customers visiting from an ever widening geographical base, stretching from Dublin to Kilkenny and Tipperary as well as significantly distant points east and west.
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Mobile games theatres a Kilcullen woman's winner


So what do you do when you have to set up entertainment for a birthday party with a dozen youngsters who have long outgrown bouncy castles? writes Brian Byrne.

That was Majella Leighton’s conundrum a few years ago when she needed to arrange a party for her son and his friends, all gamers. But there were only a couple of game consoles in the home.

She and her husband Paul, who have lived in Kilcullen for ten years, managed to gather loans of some extra consoles from friends, and the party went off fine. But the problem triggered a business idea for Majella, who was on a break from her work in senior management in the hotel industry so as to have time to look after her children. READ MORE



The Curiosity of Curious Quirkes

It’s often the case that a new business can start almost by accident, writes Brian Byrne, and that could truly be said of a young Kilcullen woman’s craft venture, Curious Quirkes.

And no, that’s not a typo … the spelling of ‘Quirkes’ is deliberate, a quirky take on ‘quirk’ which represents the underlying ethos of Niamh O’Connor’s enterprise. READ MORE







Gail's Rails for Everywoman

Sometimes it takes a crisis to trigger a life direction change, writes Brian Byrne. For Gail Murphy, that's absolutely true.

It came suddenly, this year. An unanticipated family illness cascaded into a situation where her husband was in hospital for a long period, unable to work in their corporate clothing business. With income to the household reduced seriously, Gail had to up her own personal business game. READ MORE




LOCAL BUSINESSES WHO TOOK PART IN ENTERPRISE TOWN EXPO 2016
Links are to Kilcullen Diary articles

Business/Arts & Crafts: 
Curious Quirkes
Sandra Petit Frere
An Original
Artastic
Ceramic Art
Conor Williams Photography
Curragh Pens
Drama Dynamics
Geraldine School of Dancing
Handcraft Jewellers
Hens.Love.Dance
Jenny Landers School of Dancing
Joe O Connor Engraving
Kings & Clowns Drama School
Purity Belle Candles
The Premiere School of Dancing
The Signmaker

Business/Childcare: 
Auntie Annes Country Creche
Kidz Academy Creche
Kilcullen Community Childcare
Toddlers & Wobblers

Business/Construction & Home: 
Bneatstairs
Ecokem Ltd
Firechief Fire & Safety
Kildare Bathroom Company
McDonald Window Cleaning
Murphy Design & Build
Murphy Surveys
OB Lawnmowers
Ultra House Cleaning
Woodlock Plumbing and Heating
Your Gardening Needs Sorted

Business/Fitness: 
No. 1 Fitness Kilcullen
Kilcullen Taekwon-Do Club.

Business/Food:
Francis Southern
Aedamar’s Curds
Armelle's Kitchen
Caroline Liston
Fallons
Foxhill Quail Eggs
Kalbarri Cookery School
Rachel Allen
Traditional Smokehouse

Business/Healthcare: 
Curragh Lawn Nursing Home
Pamela Harpur Yoga
Home Instead Senior Care
Kilcullen Dental & Orthodontics
Kilcullen Holistic Beauty
Nichola Kennedy Optometrist

Business/Print & Publishing: 
Clare Print
Whelan Byrne Associates

Business/Property: 
Appleton Property
Dowling Properties

Business/Retail: 
Eurospar
Avril’s Flowers
Berney Bros
Dunleas of Kilcullen
Karen O'Connor Forever Living
Kilcullen Carry Out
Pretty Little Things
Secret Kloset
Shabby Chic J&A
The Brickx Club
Value Zone
Vincents

Business/Services: 
H.S.F. Ltd Kildare Cleaning
Gordon Machinery Repair
Kilcullen Bouncy Castles
Kilcullen Parish Centre
Paul Aspell Guidance Counselling
Robert Coonan Solicitor