{"id":319417,"date":"2026-02-27T03:29:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319417\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T03:29:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:29:20","slug":"from-family-farm-to-700-stockists-how-this-mayo-couple-built-an-eco-fuel-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/319417\/","title":{"rendered":"From family farm to 700 stockists: How this Mayo couple built an eco-fuel business"},"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\">Janet O\u2019Rourke and James Boyle have built an eco\u2011fuels brand now sold in every county in Ireland, after spotting an opening in the market for products made from sawdust and compressed wood, when peat briquettes were phased out\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"James Boyle and Janet O\u2019Rourke run All-Star Eco Fuels in Claremorris, Co Mayo. Photos: Conor McKeown\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e407e298-37f6-4751-b1a9-897eb970dc40.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)\">James Boyle and Janet O\u2019Rourke run All-Star Eco Fuels in Claremorris, Co Mayo. Photos: Conor McKeown<\/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)\">Eight years ago, Janet O\u2019Rourke and James Boyle set up a business producing eco-fuels. Their office was a spare bedroom and the factory a former calving shed on the family farm just outside Claremorris in Co Mayo.<\/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)\">Every week, they loaded up the van and went door to door of businesses selling what they believed was an alternative to briquettes, which were being phased out at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Janet O\u2019Rourke and James Boyle have built an eco\u2011fuels brand now sold in every county in Ireland, after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,52079,61,60],"class_list":["post-319417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-catherina-cunnane","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319417","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=319417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}