Ciaran Crean

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Micksgarage founders Mick and Ciaran Crean. “We are trialling a fitting network. Some of our customers fit their own accessories, but others are DIFM [do it for me] customers.” Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
Micksgarage plans to launch ‘Airbnb for garage services’

Micksgarage, the online retailer of car parts and accessories backed by a number of corporate heavy hitters, is planning to launch “an Airbnb for gara(...)

Mick and Ciaran Crean: “While you may want to kick the s**t out of your brother on a daily basis sometimes, there is serious trust there,” says Mick. “You don’t get that in the same way from someone you employ.” Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
MicksGarage: a classic 13-year overnight success

Management books, the kind written by brain-deadening chicken soup for corporate soul types, say that, in business, timing is everything. Nonsense. An(...)

Businesses such as the Bud Garden Centre in Clare tested the waters as a pop-up before diving in
Best shops in Ireland 2016: This is pop-up

The pop-up shop is a retail concept that allows enterprising individuals to try their idea out to see how it might go down with the public before comm(...)

The firm is one of the largest online vendors of car parts in Ireland and Britain.
Online retailer claims third party fraudulently made CRO filings in its name

A car parts and accessories online retailer has claimed documents about it which were recently lodged with the Companies Registration Office by an unk(...)

The headquarters in Park West Industrial Park in Dublin of online retailer micksgarage.com which has customers in 70 countries.
Best Online Shop 2015: micksgarage.com

In a nondescript west Dublin industrial estate is a building that is HQ for a MicksGarage.com, an €11 million turnover business that ships 18,000 ord(...)

Taoiseach Enda Kenny with Ciaran and Michael Crean at the opening of MicksGarage.com headquarters in Park West, Dublin. Their business began life in a bedroom in 2004. Now it’s an €11 million turnover company employing 48 people. Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography
MicksGarage.com motoring along very nicely

Ireland may have missed out at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest but the Crean brothers from Mayo have high hopes of coming home winners from this y(...)

MicksGarage.com announces €2.3 million investment and 65 new jobs. Taoiseach Enda Kenny opens company’s new headquarters in Park West. Photograph: Conor McCabe
Media creating ‘wall of cynicism, disappointment and disillusionment’

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has criticised the Irish media for creating a “wall of cynicism, disappointment and disillusionment” Mr Kenny descr(...)