Linda sold glam pieces gathered over two decades
10:31, 03 Nov 2026Updated 10:49, 03 Nov 2026
Linda and Dan Kiely
The Rebel couple who went from broke salespeople to multi-millionaire CEOs have raised thousands for charity with a one-day shopping event.
The big auction took place at the InterContinental in Dublin, where Linda and Dan Kiely put a glamorous edit of Linda’s personal collection up for grabs. With a Met Gala Glamour dress code, the evening featured a curated presentation of the pieces, which were sported by friends and professional models.
Guests from fashion, business, media and entertainment gathered for the big event, which was run in partnership with Cork-founded luxury resale platform Luxury Exchange. Entrepreneur and athlete Spencer Matthews hosted an on-stage conversation with Linda and Dan.
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Singer Una Healy took to the runway in the actual glittering Gucci gown recently worn by Kate Moss on the Gucci Fall/Winter 2026 runway at Milan Fashion Week. The night also featured a live performance from Linda Martin and a fundraising auction in support of causes through the Kiely Foundation.
The event marked the latest chapter in the story of Linda’s collection, bringing together pieces gathered over more than two decades and the memories, people and stories attached to them.
The glamorous Cork couple have an incredible rags-to-riches story, when they went from broke sales workers to multi-millionaire CEOs by re-mortgaging their house to buy a tiny company operating from an office over a pub.
The pair met when Linda was Dan’s boss at a now defunct local magazine, ‘Cork Scene’, when she was a sales manager, and he was selling the ads. After the recession hit and the magazine folded, the new couple put their heads together to kickstart their careers.
Back in 1999, Linda re-mortgaged her house to help buy a small paging business called Pageboy, which she and Dan ran over a pub on Marlboro Street in Cork with just six staff. With two children from a previous marriage to feed, Linda also worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs to keep her family afloat.
Dan previously said: “I remember we went to a pub and we’d drink Murphy’s because it was cheaper than a vodka and tonic or whatever. And if you can imagine Linda, being the glamorous woman that she is, a pint of Murphy’s just didn’t work.
“We’d be going into a travel agent and paying off our one week in the sun in cash, any time we had a little extra.”
From that, they expanded to acquire a similar but much larger business Eirpage, and in 2002 they rebranded to Voxpro – a high end call centre operation, mainly for technology companies.
Linda and Dan met when she was his boss
They grew the business to a high-end call centre with over 6,000 staff, with clients like Airbnb and Google.
Timing seems to be this couple’s strong suit and in December 2019, months before the Covid-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill, they sold their company to one of their biggest clients, Airbnb. The sale of Voxpro in 2020 saw Dan and Linda’s already substantial personal fortune of €71 million skyrocket to €103 million.
Instead of putting their feet up, after the lucrative sale of Voxpro, Dan and Linda turned their attention to investing in young entrepreneurs in Cork to help start The Republic of Work on the South Mall.
This business’s CEO, Frank Brennan, acquired The Republic of Work from the couple and co-founder Dave Ronayne at the start of this year.