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Primark promotes Damien O’Neill to vice president of US retail

Value retailer Primark has promoted Penneys' Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland head Damien O’Neill to the newly-created role of vice president of US retail, where he will oversee its 20 stores in the country. O’Neill will relocate to the US, where he will be based in Primark’s US regional office in Boston, joining the US leadership team...

Business

Primark’s Penneys pledges to freeze prices for kid's fashion amid rising inflation

Primark’s Irish chain Penneys has pledged to freeze prices of its best-selling essential kids’ products amid the cost of living crisis. “Penneys will protect the prices on more than a thousand of its essential kids’ products as it seeks to help family finances go further amid the rising cost of living,” the retailer said in a statement. It said...

Retail

Irish retailers brace themselves as ex-Hurricane Ophelia makes landfall

London - A number of Irish retailers and businesses will remain closed on Monday following a red weather warning as the country braces itself for what is said to be the worst storm in 50 years. A severe weather warning is in place for today from 6 am to 12 am as former Hurricane Ophelia hits, with retailers including Dunnes Stores, Arnotts and...

People

Primark’s heir drowns, his son feared to be dead in tragic accident

The heir to value retail chain Primark, Barry Ryan, drowned after he tried to save his son’s girlfriend and his son following a tragic accident at sea. Earlier this week Barry Snr, his son Barry Davis Ryan leaped into the water in an attempt to reduce Barry Jnr girlfriend Niamh O’Connor, who had been swept away by a large wave by the coast of...