Alan co-founded MTMN with David Walsh while still in school in Co. Cork. The brand, the design and the front of the business are his - and so is the part most people find harder than the building: sitting across a table from an owner who has been at it for thirty years and earning the right to be taken seriously.
“Every owner I’ve met in person has taught me more in twenty minutes than a week behind a laptop.”
In the summer of 2026 he set out to buy a hundred strangers a coffee. No pitch, no agenda, just a proper conversation with the people behind Irish business. Based in Cork, travelling the country. Most of what shows up in this journal started at one of those tables.
The rest of the story goes here: where MTMN started, what the first client taught you, and where this is all meant to end up. Three or four paragraphs in your own voice. Delete this box once it’s written.