Ireland’s first dedicated PPE shop will open on Monday in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin. Behind the initiative is Martin O’Byrne, owner of high-end menswear shop Frewen & Alyward six doors down, his family business since 1995. He had already started to offer Edmund McNulty snoods as face coverings in his menswear shop, “so Irish style PPE got me thinking”. “We don’t sell online because we are bricks and mortar, and because we are about service and luxury and a destination shop. “And if we can save lives and make PPE available to everybody, that will be an end in itself.”

Source: The Irish Times September 12, 2020 03:56 UTC