Book a Home Visit with Samples. Address Enter only if you ordering any of the samples. I would like to hear about DesKelly products, offers, services and promotions. Top Sellers. What our Clients say. Got a great deal on our Dublin Oak laminated floor and gold underlay. Pleasant service and excellent advice. Definitely worth checking out if you are in the market for flooring etc. Hi, I recently got my father's carpet done after 30 years and the service I received was amazing from Keith in your Tallaght branch to the fitters being very professional.
Carpet was way out of reach of the average working class family at that time and was seen as an unaffordable luxury, according to son Greg Kelly. The late Des Kelly was a pioneer, a hard worker and a tremendous example to his family, according to daughter Youlanda Kelly. What are the challenges that you face in your business and how do you work to overcome them particularly in the current climate? You are constantly meeting challenges in business, some common to all business types and others more directly associated with the type of industry you are in.
The biggest challenge facing business currently is Covid The first lockdown in March was a very difficult challenge, for the whole country, but retail was hit particularly hard, closing overnight for three months. This posed questions of how to prepare for reopening and how to protect your staff and customers, while ensuring that your business had a future.
We quickly realised that while our business is one that is particularly suited to footfall in store, where customers can see and feel the products, while getting expert one to one advice, there was a lot we could do, with advances in online technology, which would enable the business to function with a greater online presence.
Having identified this, we moved fast to improve our online functionality and were therefore much better positioned for the second lockdown, allowing the business to continue trading this time around, all be it at lesser volume. Des Kelly Interiors recently celebrated 50 years in business, how did you mark such a milestone? We had an event planned, but under the circumstances we could not go ahead with this.
Instead, we celebrated online — read our blog here. We hope to have further celebrations when things have settled down in the New Year. Almost forty years later, the company also provided carpeting for the mass celebrated by Pope Francis in , as well as supplying new carpets for the bedroom and offices that accommodated the Pope at the Holy See Apostolic Nunciature on the Navan Road in Dublin.
The late Des Kelly was a pioneer, a hard worker and a tremendous example to his family, according to daughter Youlanda Kelly. Des Kelly Snr was involved in volunteering for homeless charities in Dublin, including the Morning Star Hostel, and donated generously to local charities working with less well-off people.
He was also a loyal fan of his local Bohemians Football Club and the company remain club sponsors to this day. The businessman had eight children with his wife Youlanda, who predeceased him.
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