{"id":2626,"date":"2011-10-29T10:44:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T10:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2013-05-06T19:40:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T19:40:56","slug":"donegal-pens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/donegal-pens\/","title":{"rendered":"Donegal Pens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2627\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2627\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/300donegalpens.jpg\" alt=\"Donegal Pens\" title=\"Donegal Pens\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2627\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donegal Pens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two young brothers running a small wooden pen business have gone from strength to strength in recent times. It all happens in their parents garden shed which was converted into a workshop where the boys turn wood such as bog oak, ash, yew, elm, and beech into pens that they sell all over the world on their website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>tel<\/strong>: 00353 74 9548516<br \/>\n<strong>email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:info@donegalpens.com?subject=Enquiry re DonegalPens via DonegalCottageHolidays\">info@donegalpens.com<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>website:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\"href=\"http:\/\/www.donegalpens.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.donegalpens.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.donegalcottageholidays.com%2Fblog%2Fannagry%2Fdonegal-pens%2F2626%2F&amp;send=false&amp;layout=standard&amp;width=600&amp;show_faces=true&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;font&amp;height=80&amp;appId=169856246409288\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:600px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ronan and Conor McGarvey from Loughanure in West Donegal use their evenings and weekends after they\u2019ve done their school homework to make wooden pens through the woodturning process.<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=83]<\/p>\n<p>As well as selling one to singer Daniel O\u2019Donnell, they\u2019ve also presented pens to Brian Cowen, Eamon Gilmore and Gerry Adams.<\/p>\n<p>The pair could be the country\u2019s youngest entrepreneurs having already sold over six hundred pens at around \u20ac15.95 each, making them between \u20ac3,000 \u2013 \u20ac4,000 which has been reinvested in new equipment for their workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Their father Eoin McGarvey, a postman in Donegal, related how the boys had become hooked after a visit to a woodturning fair at Junction 1. <\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;After they\u2019d been, they were pestering me \u2018Can we get a lathe! Can we get a lathe!\u2019 We thought it was a fad but they were persistent so eventually we got a small lathe and touched up the garden shed a bit with more lighting and they started making pens.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e7e6J34_9-U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nWatch more <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donegalvideos.com\">Donegal Videos<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two boys managed to sell enough pens over one summer in local shops that they were able to upgrade their equipment and since then the business has grown. Their father continued:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;They keep whatever profit themselves and at the moment they want to buy a quad bike although I\u2019m not sure about the safety of that! They\u2019re really passionate about it and it seems to be something they want to continue doing when they\u2019re older. 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