Feature: Irish Tractor Magazine January/February 2023
“Pat Cronin & Sons is a tried and trusted name around the Kingdom, with Pat Cronin himself heading up the company alongside his wife Kathleen, who looks after the books, while their sons Paudie, Shane, Alan, Kieran and Conor also help to backbone the family venture.
Irish Tractor Agri & Plant touched base with Paudie to learn more about the ins and outs of the business, its excellent machinery fleet as well as its plans going forward.
“Business here has been very good the last year or two,” said Paudie.
“We are busy at the minute. We’re constantly pricing construction jobs and are very focused on that side of things. The agricultural side has been fairly steady in recent years.”
He added: “When it comes to numbers we have working here, it goes well up to 30 or 40 during the summer but this time of year (autumn) it’s usually around 15 to 20.
“It depends on how much construction work we have on at the time. It varies a good bit.”
While agricultural contracting has been at the forefront of the services that Pat Cronin & Sons carry out for its customers, groundwork and plant hire are also part of its repertoire, with mulching also a popular service.
As well as this, the Cronins specialise in forestry work and have been contracted by Coillte since the late 1990s.
The company is also contracted by numerous construction and forestry companies, supplying excavators, bulldozers and dumpers of all sizes to housing estates, roads, reforestation sites and others, which is another way it manages to keep busy all year round.”
Full interview at the link below:
First published in Irish Tractor & Agri magazine Vol 11 No 1, January/February 2023