{"id":390843,"date":"2026-04-10T01:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390843\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T01:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T01:27:20","slug":"how-a-wicklow-ceo-scaled-his-firm-from-gaa-contacts-to-google-microsoft-and-european-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/390843\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Wicklow CEO scaled his firm from GAA contacts to Google, Microsoft and European expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ashford entrepreneur Paul O\u2019Shea of Ashview Consultants.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dc7a8d47-f36b-4745-956c-4fc7cdaffd18.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)\">Ashford entrepreneur Paul O\u2019Shea of Ashview Consultants.<\/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)\">Twenty years ago, Paul O\u2019Shea launched a consultancy firm from the box room of his family\u2019s home in Ashford, Co Wicklow. Armed with Australian experience, and a raft of connections from his days playing in local GAA clubs, he left his senior role at a major construction company and set sail for the entrepreneurship.<\/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)\">From those humble beginnings, the business has grown to serve a suite of longstanding clients, including multinational tech-companies Google, X and Microsoft, and it has this year announced significant expansion into Europe, coupled with growth in its senior management team and playing a role in Echelon\u2019s new Arklow data centre, which broke ground in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ashford entrepreneur Paul O\u2019Shea of Ashview Consultants. Twenty years ago, Paul O\u2019Shea launched a consultancy firm from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,4657],"class_list":{"0":"post-390843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-myles-buchanan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390843","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=390843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}