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Marks & Spencer's Irish stores to start selling branded products
Marks & Spencer is to start selling branded food products in its Irish stores for the first time. The UK-owned store says up to 450 branded grocery and household products will be available in all 20 of its Irish stores by the middle of this month.
The retailer, which traditionally differed from its rivals by selling only goods under the M&S label, started freeing up its shelves to well-known branded goods in Britain last year and has now adopted the same policy in Ireland.
The selection will vary according to the store size and will include international brands like Coca-Cola and Kellogg’s, and Irish brands, including Tayto, Flahavan’s and Barry’s Tea.
M&S promises the products will be competitively priced and it will attempt to match the prices charged by other big retailers. It says no M&S products will be delisted or replaced.
Man dies after crash in Roscommon
A man in his 70s has died following a two-vehicle crash in Roscommon last night. The man was travelling in a car with three other people, two women and a man aged in their 60s and 70s.
All four were brought to Roscommon Hospital for treatment after the car in which they were travelling and a van collided at approximately 6.20pm on the Boyle Road in Frenchpark.
One of the two men, who was in his early 70s, was later pronounced dead in hospital. The driver and single occupant of the van was not seriously injured.
Condolences book opens for Mick Lally
A book of condolences has been opened at the school in Co Galway where Mick Lally taught from 1969-75 before he became a full-time actor.
Dozens of people have been signing the book at MacHale Vocational School in Tuam. Former independent TD Paddy McHugh was a pupil of Lally in the school and said that he was held in high regard. The star of Bracken and Glenroe, who is survived by his wife Peige, children Saileog, Maghnus and Darach, will be cremated today at Newlands Cross crematorium chapel in Dublin.