Joe Lynam

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Breakfast Business with Enterprise Ireland on Newstalk.

Probably only one product that comes from goats that can command very high prices.

And that's cashmere, of course.

My next guest has been selling cashmere sweaters, socks and jackets for 65 years on South Anne Street.

And as we approach Christmas, she expects her busiest time to start now.

She's Susie Monaghan from Monaghan's Cashmere.

Good morning, Susie.

Thank you.

Remind us where how you garner the material.

I don't want to call it wool.

It's not called wool.

Is it from the goats?

Okay, and that is scraped off the, not scraped off, but kind of brushed off.

And are they shorn like a sheep might be?

OK.

And so it's all this wool is garnered and it ends up in bales, I presume.

And then you make you don't make the sweaters in Ireland, but you kind of commission them to be made in Italy and Scotland.

Is that right?

I have to stress that you didn't set up the business 65 years ago.