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The three women, and one man, behind Capital Glass are responsible for some of the biggest glasswork projects around Dublin, but they’ll also replace your broken window

“I have the kind of taste I can’t afford.”

The Specialist: Brian P Nolan, managing director of Brian S Nolan, a family-run interiors shop in Dún Laoghaire for over 30 years

Husband-and-wife team have been getting rugmaking down to a fine art for 30 years

After 24 years designing lights for Waterford Crystal, Billy Canning is now a freelance designer of domestic projects as well as others on a much grander scale

Since she founded Sequana in 1997, Mary Shaw, a long-term French resident, has forged an enviable international reputation for her use of texture and colour

Ciaran McGuigan, a former e-commerce businessman, film-maker and professional footballer at Drogheda United, is creating a US platform for his family furniture business

‘I suddenly realised that I was being coerced into a job – then I discovered I loved it’

The demand for cutting back branches or chopping down trees is growing in rural areas and cities, but that doesn’t stop tree surgeons from being professional ‘tree-huggers’

The Howth native has thatched everything from cottages to pubs and offices

‘Every day is a school day with this work’

Deirdre Mongey works on everything from single rooms to corporate premises but always tries to bear in mind how each individual space will be used on a daily basis