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WE love a success story don’t we, especially during chilly days and while we sit out a wintry economy.

Even better when that success story is an Irish one — and involving a Cork man at that.

Furniture designer Neil McCarthy, originally from Blackrock, designs and makes award-winning and covetable furniture in partnership with his English wife Annabel whom he met in 1998 while studying furniture design and manufacture at Rycotewood College in England.