{"id":297614,"date":"2026-02-14T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297614\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:52:11","slug":"heres-the-bellew-brothers-rule-we-have-to-work-hardest-because-if-we-dont-then-someone-else-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/297614\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the Bellew brothers\u2019 rule: \u2018We have to work hardest. Because if we don\u2019t, then someone else will\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nBellew Electrical is forged in Ulster football but is taking on the world\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ollie Bellew of Bellew Electrical in Dundalk, Co Louth. Photo: David Conachy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SN Ollie Bellew 003.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ollie Bellew of Bellew Electrical in Dundalk, Co Louth. Photo: David Conachy<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Everything goes back to family for Ollie Bellew, the founder and CEO of independent electrical wholesale group Bellew Electrical, which is driving consolidation across the sector \u2013 and increasingly looking for growth overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">He insists on driving through the Dundalk traffic and rising flood water to pay a quick visit to his brother Francie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bellew Electrical is forged in Ulster football but is taking on the world Ollie Bellew of Bellew Electrical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20803,56319,72,6353,61,60,2443],"class_list":["post-297614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-armagh-gaa","tag-armagh-news","tag-business","tag-fearghal-oconnor","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-northern-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}