Towns and cities need local shopping support

Online shopping and the international chains are a big threat to the shops that mark us out from every other city and town in Europe. They’ll only remain if we support them writes Ailin Quinlan

When Olive Finn was a child, being sent to do the shopping, meant becoming a kind of Postman Pat – she visited everyone.

“I grew up in a pub on the main street of Clonakilty, so I was involved in local family business all my life.