Monday, 30 December 2019 22:26
Pat Quinn (Leitrim): Irish Business Hall Of Fame Inductee
Pat Quinn of Quinnsworth Fame: Leitrim’s Famous 20th Century Entrepreneur He was one of those people that stood out in a crowd or in a small gathering and his arrival on the Irish business landscape revolutionalised the grocery trade. He founded an empire known as Quinnsworth at a time, when the Irish family shopping was almost 100% the responsibility of the housewife. Men did not push buggies too much in public in the 1960’s, and early 70’s and…