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Making It Work: Family knitwear firm keeps the home fires burning Irelands Eye has always moved with the times, outsourcing production to China then bringing it back home again. Now the pandemic sees it pivoting once more to embrace e-commerce 8th January, 2021
Brothers Paul and Brendan O’Sullivan took over Irelands Eye Knitwear from their parents in 2002. Picture: Fergal Phillips
When brothers Paul and Brendan O’Sullivan took over Irelands Eye Knitwear, the family business in 2002, the move coincided with the emergence of low-cost manufacturing in markets outside Ireland.
They made the difficult decision to move the bulk of their knitwear production from Dublin to China in an effort to keep the business, founded 14 years earlier by their parents Jim and Bernadette, alive.