Potter Brenda McGinn stands outside her studio, the former Jas Boylan shoe factory which was the main employer in the area until it shut down due to The Troubles, in Mullan, Ireland, March 16, 2018. "When I came back, this would have been somewhere you would have driven through and have been quite sad. It was a decrepit looking village," said McGinn, whose Busy Bee Ceramics is one of a handful of enterprises restoring life to the community. "Now this is a revitalised, old hidden village." REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne SEARCH "KILCOYNE BORDER" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. 

A cobbler sits at a roadside as he brushes a customer's shoes in Kabul, January 26, 2015. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY) 

A cobbler sits at a roadside as he waits for customers in Kabul July 15, 2014. REUTERS/Omar Sobhani (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A Syrian cobbler repairs a military boot at his shop in Damascus February 9,2014. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) 

A commuter (L) walks past cobblers sitting in a line waiting for customers outside a metro station in New Delhi June 6, 2013. REUTERS/Anindito Mukherjee (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A cobbler returns change to his customer in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa March 5, 2013. REUTERS/Joseph Okanga (KENYA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

Shoemaker Antonio Arellano works on a red shoe he made for Pope Benedict XVI in his shop in downtown Rome February 14, 2013. Far from the designer stores on the other side of the Tiber, Arellano's shop, with its smell of glue and racks of shoe polish, is unremarkable, except for the fact that, due to its location, he counts Benedict as a loyal customer. With Benedict set to retire to an apartment inside the Vatican City, Arellano hopes he will remain his customer, even if the pope no longer visits in person. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (ITALY - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A protester holding up his shoe chants slogans against Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi in front of a barbed wire barricade guarded by a tank, outside the presidential palace in Cairo December 6, 2012. Egypt's Republican Guard restored order around the presidential palace on Thursday after fierce overnight clashes killed seven people, but passions ran high in a struggle over the country's future. Hundreds of Mursi's supporters who had camped out near the palace overnight withdrew before a mid-afternoon deadline set by the Republican Guard. Dozens of Mursi's foes remained, but were kept away by a barbed wire barricade guarded by tanks. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY CIVIL UNREST) 

A shoemaker works in his hut at a pro-democracy protest camp in Sanaa November 25, 2012. Protesters are still living at the protest camp one year after a power transfer deal pulled Yemen back from the brink of civil war. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah (YEMEN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY) 

A worker walks past a damaged building in an area of Bata's former shoe factory complex in Zlin, October 23, 2012, which Tomas Bata created as part of a "utopian" factory village for his workers almost a century ago. A world war and four decades of communism has taken some of the shine off Zlin and dozens of the red-brick buildings in its giant factory complex had since fell into disrepair. Now public and private investors are in the final stages of a decade-old plan to restore the area. Picture taken October 23, 2012. REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION CITYSPACE SOCIETY REAL ESTATE) 

A view shows reconstructed and damaged buildings in an area of Bata's former shoe factory complex in Zlin, October 23, 2012, which Tomas Bata created as part of a "utopian" factory village for his workers almost a century ago. A world war and four decades of communism has taken some of the shine off Zlin and dozens of the red-brick buildings in its giant factory complex had since fell into disrepair. Now public and private investors are in the final stages of a decade-old plan to restore the area. Picture taken October 23, 2012. REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION CITYSPACE SOCIETY REAL ESTATE) 

Workers fix a roof at Bata's former shoe factory complex in Zlin, October 23, 2012, which Tomas Bata created as part of a "utopian" factory village for his workers almost a century ago. A world war and four decades of communism has taken some of the shine off Zlin and dozens of the red-brick buildings in its giant factory complex had since fell into disrepair. Now public and private investors are in the final stages of a decade-old plan to restore the area. Picture taken October 23, 2012. REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION CITYSPACE SOCIETY REAL ESTATE) 

A view shows an area of Bata's former shoe factory complex in Zlin, October 23, 2012, which Tomas Bata created as part of a "utopian" factory village for his workers almost a century ago. A world war and four decades of communism has taken some of the shine off Zlin and dozens of the red-brick buildings in its giant factory complex had since fell into disrepair. Now public and private investors are in the final stages of a decade-old plan to restore the area. Picture taken October 23, 2012. REUTERS/Petr Josek (CZECH REPUBLIC - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION CITYSPACE SOCIETY REAL ESTATE) 

A restoration expert prepares to wrap a shawl, that had belonged to iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, with paper at the "Blue House" in the neighborhood of Coyoacan in Mexico City September 27, 2012. After 50 years under lock and key, hundreds of colorful dresses, shawls and accessories worn by Kahlo will be displayed by a Mexico City museum in November. Museum officials discovered the items - which include corsets, shoes and photographs - in 2004 when they entered previously sealed rooms in the "Blue House" Kahlo shared with her husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, in the capital.The exhibit explores Kahlo's unique wardrobe inspired by Mexico's indigenous women with richly embroidered frocks, flowery headpieces and ornate silver jewelry, turning her into a fashion muse and earning her a spot in Vogue magazine in 1937. Picture taken September 27, 2012. To match story MEXICO-KAHLO/ REUTERS/Claudia Daut (MEXICO - Tags: SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT) 

A restoration expert shows the lace on the hem of a skirt that belonged to iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo at the "Blue House" in the neighborhood of Coyoacan in Mexico City September 27, 2012. After 50 years under lock and key, hundreds of colorful dresses, shawls and accessories worn by Kahlo will be displayed by a Mexico City museum in November. Museum officials discovered the items - which include corsets, shoes and photographs - in 2004 when they entered previously sealed rooms in the "Blue House" Kahlo shared with her husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, in the capital.The exhibit explores Kahlo's unique wardrobe inspired by Mexico's indigenous women with richly embroidered frocks, flowery headpieces and ornate silver jewelry, turning her into a fashion muse and earning her a spot in Vogue magazine in 1937. The embroidery on the pillow reads "Wake up sleeping heart." Picture taken September 27, 2012. To match story MEXICO-KAHLO/ REUTERS/Claudia Daut (MEXICO - Tags: SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT) 

Restoration expert Renato Camarillo Duque arranges a shawl that belonged to iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo at the "Blue House" in the neighborhood of Coyoacan in Mexico City September 27, 2012. After 50 years under lock and key, hundreds of colorful dresses, shawls and accessories worn by Kahlo will be displayed by a Mexico City museum in November. Museum officials discovered the items - which include corsets, shoes and photographs - in 2004 when they entered previously sealed rooms in the "Blue House" Kahlo shared with her husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, in the capital.The exhibit explores Kahlo's unique wardrobe inspired by Mexico's indigenous women with richly embroidered frocks, flowery headpieces and ornate silver jewelry, turning her into a fashion muse and earning her a spot in Vogue magazine in 1937. Picture taken September 27, 2012. To match story MEXICO-KAHLO/ REUTERS/Claudia Daut (MEXICO - Tags: SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT) 

A restoration expert arranges the ruffles on a blouse that belonged to iconic Mexican painter Frida Kahlo at the "Blue House" in the neighborhood of Coyoacan in Mexico City September 27, 2012. After 50 years under lock and key, hundreds of colorful dresses, shawls and accessories worn by Kahlo will be displayed by a Mexico City museum in November. Museum officials discovered the items - which include corsets, shoes and photographs - in 2004 when they entered previously sealed rooms in the "Blue House" Kahlo shared with her husband, Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, in the capital.The exhibit explores Kahlo's unique wardrobe inspired by Mexico's indigenous women with richly embroidered frocks, flowery headpieces and ornate silver jewelry, turning her into a fashion muse and earning her a spot in Vogue magazine in 1937. Picture taken September 27, 2012.To match story MEXICO-KAHLO/ REUTERS/Claudia Daut (MEXICO - Tags: SOCIETY ENTERTAINMENT) 

A man works inside a shoe repair shop in a subway in the Georgian capital Tbilisi June 20, 2012. REUTERS/David Mdzinarishvili (GEORGIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

Cobbler Gul Rehman, 55, repairs a customer's shoe along a sidewalk in Karachi's business district, early morning June 11, 2012. Rehman earns about 300 Pakistani rupees ($3) per day. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY POVERTY) 

A cobbler walks in a closed market during a partial strike called by traders against power cuts in Lahore March 31, 2012. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

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Marios Fragoulides repairs a shoe at a shop in Oreokastro, a suburb of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, March 7, 2012. Ties between Germany and Greece run deep. More than 300,000 Greeks reside in Germany, making them one of the biggest ethnic communities in the country. Nearly one in ten Greeks has worked, studied or lived in Germany. And roughly two million Germans spend their holidays in Greece every year, more than from any other country. Despite these links, officials from both countries are now realising that grass-roots cooperation between the countries has been virtually non-existent. Only about 30 partnerships between German and Greek towns currently exist, for example, compared to 2,000 German-French pairings. One partnership that has existed for over half a decade is between Oreokastro, a posh but increasingly troubled suburb of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, and Detmold in the west German state of North Rhine Westphalia. Picture taken March 7, 2012. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY) 

Marios Fragoulides repairs a shoe at a shop in Oreokastro, a suburb of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, March 7, 2012. Ties between Germany and Greece run deep. More than 300,000 Greeks reside in Germany, making them one of the biggest ethnic communities in the country. Nearly one in ten Greeks has worked, studied or lived in Germany. And roughly two million Germans spend their holidays in Greece every year, more than from any other country. Despite these links, officials from both countries are now realising that grass-roots cooperation between the countries has been virtually non-existent. Only about 30 partnerships between German and Greek towns currently exist, for example, compared to 2,000 German-French pairings. One partnership that has existed for over half a decade is between Oreokastro, a posh but increasingly troubled suburb of Thessaloniki in northern Greece, and Detmold in the west German state of North Rhine Westphalia. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (GREECE - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY) 

Raju, 30, a cobbler works inside a shoe factory in Jammu December 8, 2011. Raju earns 3,500 Rupees ($68) a month. In the background, are pictures of wrestlers, bodybuilders and an image of Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity Lakshmi. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY RELIGION) 

A cobbler fixes a rubber sole at a shop in Quetta October 20, 2011. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

Budhram, a 55-year-old cobbler, works next to a giant shoe on display at his stall at a crafts fair in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh October 15, 2011. Budhram took 45 days to make the nine-foot-long shoe weighing 30 kilograms. REUTERS/Ajay Verma (INDIA - Tags: SOCIETY) 

An Afghan cobbler waits for customers as he sits in his shop in Kabul August 25, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) 

A cobbler fixes a rubber sole at a shop in Quetta on June 16, 2011. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed (PAKISTAN - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) 

Footwear worn by new recruits from the Republican Forces of Ivory Coast (FRCI) are seen as they gather at a base in Abidjan April 18, 2011. Since former strongman Laurent Gbagbo was arrested last week, Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara has been trying to restore order in Abidjan and instill discipline among his troops made up of former rebels and rag-tag fighters. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (IVORY COAST - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Cobblers are seen along a street in Obalende district in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos April 11, 2011. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA - Tags: SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) 

A man comes out of his shoe repair shop in Havana April 12, 2010. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan (CUBA - Tags: SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

Cobbler Syahrial Amiruddin repairs shoes at his workshop in Kuala Lumpur March 19, 2010. Malaysia's consumer price index (CPI) in February rose by 1.2 percent from a year ago, its second consecutive month of positive numbers, government data showed on Friday. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY) 

An Afghan shoemaker works in the front of his shop at a market in Baraki Rajan, Baraki Barak district in Logar province October 10, 2009. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) 

An Afghan shoemaker works in his shop at the marketplace in the center of Kherwar district in Logar province October 5, 2009. REUTERS/Nikola Solic (AFGHANISTAN CONFLICT SOCIETY) 

Shoemaker Abdul Ahad, 30, hammers a rubber sole onto a traditional leather sandal at a store in Karachi September 17, 2009. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS IMAGES OF THE DAY) 

A man repairs used footwear at a shoe market in Karachi August 29, 2009. REUTERS/Akthar Soomro (PAKISTAN SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) 

Palestinian workers put finishing touches on shoes, some meant to be transported to Israel, at a factory in the West Bank city of Hebron August 25, 2009. Wary Palestinian businessmen say some major internal Israeli checkpoints removed this summer can easily be re-established, so their operating environment remains fraught with unpredictability. But with easier movement, trade is indeed on the rise in places, and as a result there are more jobs.Picture taken August 25, 2009. To match feature PALESTINIANS-ECONOMY/ACCESS REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun (WEST BANK BUSINESS POLITICS) 

A cobbler works at a shack in southern Tehran May 26, 2009. A slump in the West checked oil's surge last year, but rising consumer prices -- as well as a lack of jobs -- are still the loudest complaint in Tehran as the Islamic Republic heads to a presidential election where President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces a challenge from reformers. Photo taken May 26, 2009. To match feature IRAN-ELECTION/ECONOMY REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl (IRAN POLITICS ELECTIONS SOCIETY BUSINESS) 

Cobblers work at a roadside shop in Islamabad April 20, 2009. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN SOCIETY BUSINESS) 

A cobbler makes leather shoes inside his workshop in Jammu November 14, 2008. REUTERS/Amit Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

A shopkeeper (C) works in his shoe repair shop in Khoy, about 600 km (372 miles) northwest of Tehran November 12, 2008. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi (IRAN) 

A cobbler and his son wait for customers at a roadside in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad November 11, 2008. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (PAKISTAN) 

A store employee walks past a drum display inside a John Varvatos store that has been built inside the space once occupied by the music club CBGB in New York April 8, 2008. Picture taken April 8, 2008. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES) 

An Afghan cobbler works in his shop in Kabul February 19, 2008. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood (AFGHANISTAN) 

Two men stand at the door of a shoe repair shop on a street in Nairobi's outskirts October 5, 2007. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA) 

Ram Kumar, 36, a cobbler, shows miniature shoes at a shoe factory in Jammu September 20, 2007. Kumar, who works at a shoe factory in the northern town of Jammu, spends his weekends making miniature shoes, half-an-inch (1.3 cm) long, in an attempt to get into the Guinness World Book of Records or the Indian equivalent. REUTERS/Amit Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

Ram Kumar, 36, a cobbler, works at a shoe factory in Jammu September 20, 2007. Kumar, who works at a shoe factory in the northern town of Jammu, spends his weekends making miniature shoes, half-an-inch (1.3 cm) long, in an attempt to get into the Guinness World Book of Records or the Indian equivalent. REUTERS/Amit Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR) 

A cobbler waits for the customers in the old quarters of Delhi July 19, 2007. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (INDIA) 

Shoes of the protesting demonstrators litter the street of Chahabahil in the capital of Kathmandu, April 17, 2006. Nepali troops opened fire on anti-monarchy protesters in an eastern town on Monday and killed one man, witnesses and officials said, as international pressure increased on King Gyanendra to restore multi-party democracy. REUTERS/Danish Ismail 

Shoe-shine boy Pankaj, 12, works at his trade on a pavement in the eastern India city of Kolkata March 22, 2006. One out of six children in the world is involved in child labour, doing work that is damaging to his or her mental, physical and emotional development. REUTERS/Jayanta Shaw 

A Chinese shoemaker works in Beijing March 4, 2004. China's annual session of parliament, the National People's Congress, opens on Friday. REUTERS/Guang Niu ASW/SH 

A Baghdad policeman hits a painting of Saddam Hussein with his shoe at a law enforcement academy April 14, 2003. More than 2,000 Baghdad policemen reported back for work to try to restore law and order in the Iraqi capital which has seen massive mayhem after Hussein's rule crumbled. 

A Baghdad policeman hits a painting of Saddam Hussein with his shoe at
a law enforcement academy April 14, 2003. More than 2,000 Baghdad
policemen reported back for work to try to restore law and order in the
Iraqi capital which has seen massive mayhem after Hussein's rule
crumbled. REUTERS/Chris Helgren

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A Filipino shoemaker is surrounded by pairs of old, imported shoes which he repairs at his sidewalk store in Manila August 10. The shoemaker said those who cannot afford to buy new shoes and want their old pairs to look like new ones go to him, who charges them 200 pesos (US$4.50) for the restoration. 

A Filipino shoemaker is surrounded by pairs of old, imported shoes which he repairs at his sidewalk store in Manila August 10. The shoemaker said those who cannot afford to buy new shoes and want their old pairs to look like new ones go to him, who charges them 200 pesos (US$4.50) for the restoration.

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German Chancellor Helmut Kohl (L) gestures as he speaks to staff in a new shoe shop inside the new shopping center of the Leipzig main station following opening ceremonies for the newly renovated station November 12. The rebuilding and restoration of the 1915 central station cost about 500 million German marks. The new central stationl offers restaurants, shops and boutiques.

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