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Pictured at the awards ceremony held in the Round Room of Dublin’s Mansion House were, l-r: Jim Loughran (Octabuild Chairman); Keith Buckley (McMahon’s, Cork) and Paddy Kelly (President HAI). Photo: Shane O’Neill / Fennells

McMahon’s, Water Street, Cork is a 100% Irish owned Independent Builders Merchant. Founded in 1832, McMahons have been trading for 25 Years in Water Street, having taking over from Barry’s Timber.

The store offers quality building supplies and DIY materials to the trade and public and supplies to Cork city and county, with a store also located in Fermoy. They have a new online purchasing experience for customers, currently with free delivery.

The Munster and overall national awards were won by Richard Boyle and Sons (2004) Ltd, Killorglin, Co. Kerry. Other winners were: Garveys Builders Providers, Roscommon; (Connaught/Ulster Award); Telfords, Portlaoise; (Leinster Award) Grange Builders Providers, Baldoyle; (Dublin City and County Award) Heiton Buckley, Cork Road, Waterford; (Best Multi-Location Branch Award) Topline Curran’s, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford; (Best Owner Managed/Single store Award) Chadwicks Plumb Centre, Glasnevin, Dublin; (Innovation Award). A Lifetime Achievement Award was also presented to Michael Doyle, Topline Doyles, Carlow.

The companies who organise the awards as Octabuild are; Gyproc, Evo-Stik, Dulux Paints, Irish Cement, Kingspan Insulation, Sanbra Fyffe, Tegral and Wavin. Speaking at the awards the chairman of Octabuild Jim Loughran, said, “The Octabuild brand message ‘Building benefits for merchants’ was carefully chosen to reflect the relationship we have with builders merchants in Ireland. It is a message that has held firm for almost 30 years. Octabuild stands for promoting Irish-manufactured products and services. Life is cyclical and the good times are due again and when they do we hope that our relationship with Irish builders merchants will be even stronger.”

Between them the Octabuild companies have over 650 years manufacturing experience in Ireland, directly employ over 1,200 people here and have over 20,000 quality products available every day for Irish builders merchants.

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