Top award for retail veterans Cummins Sports
The award, which is sponsored by Heineken Ireland and the Irish Examiner, was a long time coming, according to company director Kevin Cummins, who joked it has been in business in Cork for 36 years and it was about time it won.
He paid tribute to Ger Leary, with whom Mr Cummins opened his first sports store in November 1971 as Cummins & O’Leary. It took over Mortell’s fish shop on a Friday evening and opened its doors as a sports shop on the following Monday.
