The Irish Fairy Door Company has taken Niamh Sherwin-Barry, co-founder Aoife Lawlor and their husbands Oisín and Barry on a magical adventure.  Niamh joined Ray D'Arcy, informing him that "every second house in Ireland of children of a believing age" is the proud owner of the door to another world.  Now DHX, the second biggest animation house in the world after Disney, has invested and is taking the company global.  You'll be able to go through the fairy doors on screens worldwide and the sky is the limit for the little company that could.

It hasn't always been sunshine and rainbows for Niamh though.  The company was born out of an isolated moment of laughter between the friends around a kitchen table during a dark time in their lives.

"My husband was in finance…  If there was a poster for the Celtic Tiger, we would have been on it and it all just stopped in 2008.  He was in mortgages and literally, we went from over €100,000 to zero within months and we existed on money we had saved…  It was really, really bleak."

Luckily, Niamh and family had a fairy living in their house called Esme and her friend Aoife similarly had one in their household called Tilly who swooped in at exactly the right moment to save the day.  Fairies are good like that.

"Around the kitchen table… we were discussing what Esme and Tilly were up to…  We were kind of bouncing ideas off each other…  We were laughing…  Without sounding too dramatic, it was something that we just didn't do at the time, we didn't laugh, it was really, really, really hard times so to actually hear laughter, to forget about all the other stuff that we were worried about…  The magic of childhood, we were just going right back to that."

The "entrepreneurial lads behind us" (Oisín and Gavin) encouraged the girls to harness their creativity.  Between the four of them, they had sales, PR, finance, creativity covered, i.e. the perfect team.  "I really do believe in fate," Niamh told Ray.  "I believe in the stars aligning and I believe in things happening for a reason.  That conversation was supposed to happen that day," she said, and the good times were rolling.  Add in phenomenal popularity and an endorsement from a Kardashian and you've got the stuff of dreams.  Keep an eye on a screen near you for a fairy invasion in the near future.

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