Clayton Love Jnr: The 'Renaissance Man' who brought shopping centres to Cork

Former British ambassador to Ireland Veronica Sutherland with Clayton Love Jnr. Picture: Dan Linehan

Born in 1929 — the year of the Wall Street Crash — Cork businessman Clayton Love Jnr arrived into a family with shops and selling in its veins, with the name Clayton Love already over the retail doors in various city locations in the early 1900s.

Retail has continued down the Love family generations, as has the name Clayton Love: it has passed down now to a fifth generation of ‘Claytons’ just prior to ‘Junior’s’ passing, weeks ahead of his 95th birthday in April.