How Shannon duty-free took off
A new book by Brian O’Connell commemorates the life and career of Brendan O’Regan, the Clare man whose eureka moment led to the creation of the lucrative global trade in duty-free goods
A browse round a duty-free shop has become a rite of passage for travellers passing through an airport in every corner of the world. But I suspect few of them realise that many of these shops owe their origin to one Brendan O’Regan from the village of Sixmilebridge in Co Clare.
So how did this global business, which is now worth $70 billion annually, come about? To answer that question we must first ...
