About Us

My name is Eoin O'Connor. I live in Strandhill in County Sligo, Ireland, right beside the ocean, on the Wild Atlantic Way.

I first started working in Photofast ltd, a retail one-hour photo shop, in Sligo town in 2015. I worked as a sales assistant with my Dad, Félim, who owned the business. We developed and printed people's photos, created canvas prints, photo blocks and photo gifts. 

We also sold photo frames of various sizes as well as an array of photo albums. Félim also decided to create personalised photos for lockets and wedding charms. This proved to be a success as there was a growing demand for them in the recent years.

In 2020, when the pandemic hit, Félim came to the decision that it was time to retire.

I saw that Photofast had been one of the only places locally to sell a variety of photo albums, so I suggested to Félim that we could set up our own website. He reminded me that there was still a demand for personalised lockets from the general public.

A lightbulb came on above my head, you could say and the two of us sat down to discuss the idea of starting up our own business online. We would sell photo albums to people and a selection wedding charms and lockets, including cufflinks. We decided to continue as an online family business.

Once we had decided what to sell, we just had to come up with a name. We wrote down a list and eventually landed on Photome.ie. 

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 Where it all began.