Mark Kinsella SAT24DEC22
t’s telling that, as we chatted with Mark Kinsella about his new 
Greystones HQ this morning, we had to roll it there again, Colette, quite a few times.
Christmas, or just – as in the case of new neighbour, Telford Evans – make a quip about hoping not to be calling in any time soon.
“This is the town that I grew up in,” says Mark, “and that means the connections run deep. It’s often just two or three degrees of separation with people in Greystones, and so, I’m always honoured when someone calls on me at one of the most difficult times in their lives to help them get through it.”
Despite coming from a long line of fishermen and coal merchants, Mark Kinsella was still in shorts when he decided he was going to be an undertaker. It was the profession of family friend Eddie O’Sullivan, and the teenage Mark was soon knocking on the man’s door, looking for an apprenticeship. And after 21 years of perfecting his craft, the Blacklion buster went out on his own on April 16th, 2018.
“That was an inevitable move,” he says today, although turning his back on 15 years with Murphy’s funeral home in Bray wasn’t easy. “I had no idea if I could make it work on my own; I only knew that I had to…”
Or proud.