Iconic Cork newsagents to close after 46 years in business

The closure of Porter, known to all as Porter's, is the latest in a series of changes to the main thoroughfare of Patrick Street

Porter newsagents on Patrick Street has been in business for 46 years; it closed its doors to the public on Saturday, October 22. Picture: Larry Cummins 

A newsagents on Patrick Street in Cork city was inundated with well-wishers today as shoppers dropped in to Porter as it shut its doors for the last time after being in operation for more than four decades.

Store manager Christine Kelleher, who is from Dublin Hill in Cork city, joined the newly opened newsagents 46 years ago last April under then manager Mairead O'Callaghan.