Our Story

NEPHIN began with an unwashed bowl of porridge.

One morning in college, I forgot to rinse my bowl after breakfast. When I eventually went to wash it, I could hear my dad’s voice. Growing up, he was always telling me and my siblings to wash our porridge bowls before the stuff turned to cement.

That morning, something clicked. If porridge could turn into cement, why not swap a cement mixer for a tub of porridge oats?

I pictured the design on the back of a T-shirt. That became Bricks & Oats, the first release from NEPHIN.

The name NEPHIN comes from a mountain near my home town in County Mayo. A connection to home, for an idea that started away from it.