The company that is now ÉireComposites was originally founded in 1998 by co-founders Conchúr Ó Brádaigh and P.J. Feerick. Growing out of the University of Ireland, and building on Feerick’s background in plastics and Ó Brádaigh’s academic work in composites engineering, the company began first as a composite materials testing company called Composites Testing Laboratory (CTL), which is still a subsidiary of ÉireComposites today. Less than a year after CTL was founded, ÉireComposites (“Éire” is “Ireland” in the Irish language) was started as a separate branch of the company focused on composite parts fabrication.