The Mick Clifford Podcast: The Dunnes dynasty — Matt Cooper

Everybody is familiar with the Dunnes Stores brand, but what about the family behind it?

File Picture of the first Dunnes Stores store, which opened in Cork city in 1944.

Dunnes Stores is one of the most famous brands in the country with one in every five shopping euros spent in one of their outlets. But what of the family behind the brand? 

Many people would have been familiar with the late Ben Dunne, a larger than life character, but what lay behind the character and what of the other big personalities in the family, from Ben Snr down.

Matt Cooper has written Dynasty: Scandals, Triumph, Turmoil and Succession at the heart of Dunnes Stores. 

Matt is Mick's guest on this week's podcast.