We were delighted to be featured in last week’s paper alongside fellow vintage retronauts, The Cellar Door. Even more so to be described as ‘young entrepreneurs.’
Here’s an except from the Limerick Leader article by Anne Sheridan.
DAFT Punk’s hit song Get Lucky proved fortuitous for Limerick musicians Mark Sheehan and David Irwin some months ago.
They had finished playing a gig in Limerick, and had been racking their brains to think of a name for their first business, located in an disused unit in a lane-way off Catherine Street.
The increasingly popular Lucky Lane has born just before Christmas, and since then, a host of new, small enterprises have been springing up across the city. Now home to a collective of artisan traders, Lucky Lane was formerly used as a storage yard for Duggan Glass.
“We were impressed with the size and the location, and immediately saw the potential of the place. It was one of those thoughts that kept developing, and we thought that we had to follow through, rather than just talking about it. It has been really rewarding to have people come in and say ‘This is a really nice quirky place’.
“We had the intention of opening up some sort of arts and crafts unit, with a focus on the upcycling and recycling concept. So when we saw this place it all made sense,” explained Mark, a music graduate of Limerick Institute of Technology from Shannonbanks.
They took a leasehold, renovated the space and began getting others involved. As part of the unit remains open to the element, they incorporated a mini garden centre to the front of the store.
“We now have a bit of a collective with eight or nine different here selling their goods, and sell on commission other arts and crafts, from handbags to bath products and jewellery. We have LPs and the old Limerick prints are quite a hit at the moment” he explained.
“We’re delighted we’re surviving in the current climate. Our main focus was ‘Can we survive January, February and March?’ We’ve gotten this far, and with the good weather beginning, and more people on the streets, more people are coming on as we seem to have a little bit of something for everybody. It has been fun, and it’s nice to be able to say that about a new business or any business.”