STARBUCKS and Nando’s are coming to Cork City’s Emmet Place — and, now, an investment property linked to long-time developer/investor, Robin Power, and which is let to two food operators, is for sale there, priced at €1.2m.

A two-month stay has been placed on a High Court injunction linked to the closure to the public of a branch of Dunnes Stores in Wexford.

THIS week Taoiseach Enda Kenny and some senior ministers twice presented themselves as hand-tied supplicants dependent on the kindness of strangers who might do the right thing — hopefully before an election is called.

Eurospar has slashed fruit and vegetable prices to as little as 9c — just weeks after other major retailers agreed not to sell produce below cost.

One of the largest, and best trading pubs on Cork city’s Northside, the 9,000 sq ft Groves in Blackpool, has been put to market by a receiver for €525,000, via agents Behan Irwin Gosling.

"The street is devastated, a legend has passed on."

Retail giant Dunnes Stores secretly spied on staff who were suspected of eating food at a store’s deli counter without paying.

A group lobbying for better working conditions in Bangladesh clothes factories has called on O’Neills to be transparent in how its sports gear is manufactured.

When it comes to looking sexy, it’s what’s on the inside that counts.

CONGRATULATIONS, you’re going to college.

Dunnes Stores has launched a Supreme Court appeal in a legal row with fashion company Karen Millen over the protection of fashion designs.

Aldi’s share of the Irish grocery market has grown by 30% over the last year to 6%, with rival Dunnes Stores’ share falling by 7.8% to 21% giving it the second largest market share behind Tesco’s 28.6% — up 2.5%.

DUNNES Stores’ right-hand man Dan Barrett has occupied all of the hot seats.

MICHAEL LOWRY pocketed £34,500 intended as a Christmas bonus from Dunnes Stores for staff of his refrigeration company, according to a little-publicised finding of the Moriarty Tribunal.

CASH-STRAPPED shoppers are increasingly turning to supermarket own-brand products as they are seen to represent good value.

THEIR “better value beats them all”, but Dunnes Stores will not be winning spelling contests anytime soon after a customer reported blatant grammar and spelling mistakes on a shirt she purchased from the supermarket chain.

HE tried selling them in bulk a year ago and now auctioneer Johnny Ryan is going the tried and tested, ‘Dunnes Stores’ pricing route for Town Heights — selling the Buttevant semis for €99,000 each.

IN his letter (January 8), Ciarán Cleary contends that Ireland should take Israel as an economic model, apparently believing its affluent, hi-tech researchers to be representative of that country generally.

THERE is renewed speculation that supermarket giants ASDA is to takeover Dunnes Stores’ 120 outlets in the Republic of Ireland.

SPECULATION grew yesterday that Dunnes Stores may be taken over by British retail giant Asda.

"This is a stick-up" is what the first man in a queue told a postmistress as soon as she opened for business - but within minutes, he was arrested and held by a local pensioner and a Ukrainian national.

IF YOU came out of Dunnes Stores with a bag of bananas unpaid for, it is highly unlikely that the security man would accept a plea of “mental blackout” in mitigation as you shrank with embarrassment in the street after being caught.

THE Moriarty Tribunal has heard that former Revenue chairman, Seamus Paircéir, argued down the valuation put on the Dunnes Stores family trust by his own officials by around £40 million.

‘HOME for Christmas’ is one of the attractions at Garrane Darra - a little known setting in Cork’s Bishopstown/Wilton area that is about to become big news.

WHEN Vonnie Munroe walked off her job in protest at the Dunnes Stores selling South African goods 20 years ago today, she did not realise that it would cost her her home.

IS it the end for West End?