Tralee brothers striking while the iron is hot

Kerry company Ard Ri stands as a market leader in the homeware market, partnering with 1,200 retailers and bucking international trends with record growth

Neil and Paul Fitzgibbon run the Ard Ri group which is now a global operation that employs nearly 700 people.

Neil and Paul Fitzgibbon both left school at 16 to set up the family business, Ard Ri Marble, with their father Noel.

They trained as monument sculptors - a craft as old as the stones they moulded and shaped.