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The Bewley family began dealing tea in Dublin in 1840, having broken the East India Company's grip on the trade by shipping direct from China, and the cafés followed. The Grafton Street room, with its Harry Clarke windows and open fires, became the city's front parlour.

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly signs regulations requiring every alcohol container sold in Ireland to warn of liver disease, fatal cancers and drinking in pregnancy and to show grams of alcohol and calories, from 22 May 2026.

Alo Yoga's first store in Ireland: a 6,738 sq ft shop at 62 Grafton Street, opened with a run of yoga, Pilates, boxing and run-club classes.

Primark chief executive Paul Marchant resigned with immediate effect after an investigation by parent company Associated British Foods into an allegation of inappropriate behaviour towards a woman in a social setting, ending his 16 years running the retailer.

Associated British Foods confirmed Eoin Tonge, its finance director who had run Primark on an interim basis since Paul Marchant's March 2025 exit, as the retailer's permanent chief executive, alongside a new chief commercial officer role.

Cancer, liver-disease and pregnancy warnings become mandatory on every alcohol container sold in Ireland, after the government pushed the start from 22 May 2026 to 3 September 2028 citing economic circumstances.