Galen Weston, businessman behind Brown Thomas, dies aged 80

Galen Weston, director Brown Thomas outside their new Cork department store, formerly Cash's yesterday. Picture: Eddie O'Hare
Galen Weston, the entrepreneur who built an Atlantic-spanning business network that made him one of the richest Canadians, has died. He was 80.
Mr Weston died Monday “peacefully at home after a long illness faced with courage and dignity,” the Weston family said in a statement last night.