Cork Company of the Year Awards: The rise and rise of Spearline Labs is one of Cork’s great stories

It has been such a glorious rise for Skibbereen, Co Cork-based Spearline Labs in the past few years that one wonders if it will actually one day be too big for the Small and Medium Enterprise category of Cork Chamber’s Company of the Year Awards.

Founded in 2003 by university friends Kevin Buckley and Matthew Lawlor, Spearline Labs has become a global leader in toll and toll-free number testing.

Its success has also meant that Skibbereen has become as well-known in the IT world as it has in the sporting world for its two Olympic rowing heroes, the O’Donovan brothers.