Ciaran Crean
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The ‘covidpreneurs’ of 2020: ‘You couldn’t mill the flour fast enough’
- Life & Style
- June 20, 2020, 06:00
Meet the miller who worked all night, the car-parts sellers who started flogging frisbees, the gin makers who switched to hand sanitiser,(...)

Hyundai calls for temporary cut in vehicle registration tax to boost car sales in July
- Transport & Tourism
- May 13, 2020, 18:34
The head of Hyundai Ireland has called on the Government to temporarily cut the cost of vehicle registration tax (VRT) on motor vehicles to help boost(...)
![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 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](/polopoly_fs/1.3335548.1513879377!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
Micksgarage plans to launch ‘Airbnb for garage services’
- Retail & Services
- December 22, 2017, 05:55
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(...)

MicksGarage: a classic 13-year overnight success
- Retail & Services
- March 10, 2017, 06:10
Management books, the kind written by brain-deadening chicken soup for corporate soul types, say that, in business, timing is everything. Nonsense. An(...)

Best shops in Ireland 2016: This is pop-up
- Best Shops
- June 25, 2016, 02:00
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(...)

Online retailer claims third party fraudulently made CRO filings in its name
- Retail & Services
- December 2, 2015, 21:37
A car parts and accessories online retailer has claimed documents about it which were recently lodged with the Companies Registration Office by an unk(...)

Best Online Shop 2015: micksgarage.com
- Life & Style
- August 29, 2015, 05:00
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(...)

MicksGarage.com motoring along very nicely
- Retail & Services
- May 29, 2015, 01:20
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(...)

Media creating ‘wall of cynicism, disappointment and disillusionment’
- Music
- May 2, 2013, 19:01
Taoiseach Enda Kenny has criticised the Irish media for creating a “wall of cynicism, disappointment and disillusionment” Mr Kenny descr(...)