Joe O'Donovan

Joe O'Donovan was an Irish emigrant who moved to the UK in the 1950s from the village of Goleen, County Cork. He worked for British Rail and in demolition before entering the waste management industry, where he achieved significant success. Joe's entrepreneurial spirit and hard work laid the foundation for his family’s business, O'Donovan Waste Disposal, which his daughter Jacqueline later expanded into a multimillion-euro enterprise.