French sports retailer Decathlon sees Irish sales top €1bn

French sports retailer Decathlon may not have any bricks and mortar stores operating here yet but its Irish arm recorded sales of more than €1.1bn in 2018, newly filed accounts show.

The company is set to open its first Irish store, at Ballymun in north Dublin, next month. The business has been selling into the Irish market via its website since August 2017 and averages around 60,000 orders each year.