Irish steelwork contractor celebrates 30th anniversary

Kiernan Structural Steel (KSS) has celebrated 30 years of business by inviting its clients, suppliers and employees to a factory tour and an evening of entertainment at a nearby hotel.

Founded in 1989 in Longford, Ireland by husband and wife team Frank and Dolores Kiernan, the company began its journey using a small shed as its production base.

The company’s first projects were agricultural jobs in the local area. Over the intervening years KSS moved into industrial work and gradually enlarged its workforce. Today it has one of the largest structural steel fabrication works in the Republic of Ireland.

KSS’s current core of clients are in the pharmaceutical sector and data centre operators, although it also specialises in warehouses, multi-storey car parks, offices and sports arenas.

It has recently completed the new Curragh Racecourse grandstand, which features a 45m-deep cantilevering roof.