Shop owners with combined 128 years in business named joint Cork Person of the Year winners 

Tony Linehan of Shandon Sweets and Angela Cantwell of Angela’s Shop & Coffee Dock in Fountainstown share the spoils

Tony Linehan, Lord Mayor Cllr Deirdre Forde, Deputy Mayor of the County of Cork Cllr Deirdre O'Brien, Angela Cantwell, and Dan Linehan at the presentations at the Rochestown Park Hotel. Picture: Larry Cummins

The joint winners of the Cork Person of the Year Award are the owners of two ‘traditional shops’ that have withstood the test of time, clocking up a combined 128 years in business.

One lovingly described as the city’s own ‘Willy Wonka sweet factory’ has been in existence since 1928 and the other has been run by its owner for 33 years.