This was the first time I’d been back to my mother’s native Dublin in the better part of 20 years. When the O’Toole family engaged us to sell PestGuard, it was deep in the heart of Covid, and international travel was heavily restricted. I was excited to be back and ecstatic to finally sit down for a drink with Tom and Darren.

We headed over to the temple bar area of Dublin and discussed the growth of PestGuard from a small one-man operation to the largest independent pest control company in the country. One of the most interesting aspects of the conversation for me, though, was providing a service in a country divided between Ireland and Northern Ireland. -Paul Giannamore