Siblings sign Specsavers deal

Teresa and Patrick Flanagan had very different professional backgrounds

Patrick and Teresa Flanagan, founders of HomeCall

Siblings Teresa and Patrick Flanagan may have very different professional backgrounds, but they were always united in their desire to start their own business.

Teresa was a chartered accountant at Ernst and Young, while her brother was an optometrist for Specsavers in Britain.

“Patrick was working in Britain, but he had wanted to come back to Ireland for a while, so we started to think about setting up a business together,” she said.