Fumbally Exchange is a community of design-focused small businesses, sole traders and start-ups. Our aim is to cultivate an atmosphere for creative and regenerative growth in a time of great challenges and volatility in our industry.
We believe in the capacity and influence of architects and designers to imbue real, exalting and economically measurable benefits to citizen and place.
At Fumbally Exchange, businesses, individuals and entrepreneurs can come to work;
- to produce, to share information and facilities;
- to research and test ideas;
- to simply be under this creative envelope connecting across many disciplines and with strong bonds across the design world.
George Boyle writes a column on Fumbally Exchange, for thejournal.ie
Ailish Connelly reports for the Irish Times, Friday Oct 22nd 2010, on the success of Fumbally Exchange as one of the few positive stories to arise from the construction collapse.
The Fumbally Exchange is featured in a video documentary on the European financial crisis by Andy Jordan of the Wall Street Journal. Interviews with George Boyle, Barry O'Halloran and Ciarán Ferrie.
Fumbally Exchange is the second item on George Lee's programme 'the business', Saturday 4th September 2010.
Podcast for "The Business" is now available here;
http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2010/pc/pod-v-04091052m12sthebusiness.mp3
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Fumbally Exchange hosts a programme of regular Continuing Professional Development events as part of its commitment to providing a focus for innovation and discourse within the local design community. The events are aimed primarily at Architects and Architectural Technologists and are intended to help fulfil their professional CPD requirements, but are open to anyone who may find them useful or interesting. The events take place on the first Monday of every month at 1pm in Fumbally Square. CPD events are generally presented by suppliers who are RIAI accredited and there is no cost to attendees, however, pre-registration is essential - if you would like to be included on the circulation list for CPD events please subscribe below:
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Note: Fumbally Exchange has been endorsed as a “provider” for the purposes of recording self-defined activity on RIAI CPDEngage. Where the CPD event is presented by a non-RIAI accredited entity and a separate certificate not issued directly, all attendees will be provided written proof of attendance for the purpose of recording this activity at the CPDEngage website.
Feature on Balbriggan in Irish Daily Star, Friday 13th April, with a small feature on FExBalbriggan featuring Anew McKnight and landlord Gerry Andrews.
Fumbally Exchange are pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 8th Annual Simon Open Door on the 12th and 13th May 2012.
Wabi-Sabi feature in The Irish Times Magazine on Saturday 24th March 2012.
Download the brochure for Fumbally Exchange Balbriggan here

Ré is part of a series of talks, one of which he is chairing in Filmbase, Tuesday 6th March ‘RE-FORM’ - designing systems which enable not curb
For more info see here
The Feb 20th edition of the Irish Times carried a feature on the Fumbally Exchange by Áine Kerr in the Business + Innovation supplement.
The Institute of Designers in Ireland, the professional body representing the interests of Irish designers, has re-located to Fumbally Exchange. The Institute was formed in 1972 and represents designers from different disciplines who practice in Ireland.
Email: info@idi-design.ie, or for more info go to www.idi-design.ie
Fumbally Exchange is featured in a recent Pivot Dublin Blog Feb 2012
Fumbally Exchange founder George Boyle is guest speaker at the Dublin City Enterprise Board hosted Roundtable Event for Architects on 25th of January 2012.
In an interview for Prime Time with RTE’s Robert Short filmed in Fumbally Exchange, George Boyle spoke about the difficulties faced by small start ups in Ireland.
Fumbally Exchange founder George Boyle is guest speaker at the Dublin City Enterprise Board hosted Roundtable Event for Architects on 25th of January 2012.
Among the projects featured are Green Infrastructure Studies for Dublin City Council and projects in Balbriggan, Abbeyleix, Waterford, Kilruddery and in Russia
The Irish Emigrant Monday 12th December 2011 features ‘a simple little story’ of ‘adventure, belief in people, courage, style and sportsmanship, graft, lateral thinking patriotism, legacy and community’...and much, much more besides. Really!
The Eurovea centre in Bratislava, completed in 2010 under the design management of Fumbally Exchange resident, Ciarán Ferrie, has won the 2011 “Best Retail Development” award at MAPIC.
Inspiring, innovative, inventive and interesting ideas…and all in Fumbally Exchange, Thursday 20th October
You can view a Video of the Event HERE, courtesy of Matthew Boyd - mahoo
The North County Leader of 11th October 2011 reports on the proposed opening of a Fumbally Exchange in Balbriggan.
Serial entrepreneur, Fumbally Resident and graphic designer Fergus O'Neill was featured widely on RTE TV, Journal.ie and elsewhere on the web recently for his initiative in recycling presidential election posters by turning them into bird houses.
Fumbally Exchange was chosen as one of the Irish case studies for recent visit by students from the University of Florida, as part of their 'The Global Entrepreneurship Study Program'
Fumbally Exchange resident and Urban Designer Daibhí Mac Domhnaill of áit urbanism + landscape was part of the LOCI group of consultants who prepared a Public Realm Plan for Balbriggan entitled 'The Heart of Balbriggan'.
The Irish Times Magazine of Saturday October 1st, 2011 features a bespoke kitchen by Fumbally Exchange based Patrick McKenna of Wabi-Sabi.
bNEW captures a striking modern house and its mountain landcape, featured on the front cover of Construct Ireland Issue 8 Volume 5, and also in the Sunday Times, Home supplement of October 2nd 2011.