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The Irish Sun
4 days ago
- Business
- The Irish Sun
I'm over 40 and tried stunning new summer trousers at Dunnes Stores, I tried so hard NOT to buy them
A FASHION fan has told how she tried on new trousers for summer at Dunnes Stores - and couldn't resist buying them. Carrie Barrett, who posts under 3 The newest set in Dunnes Stores is perfect for summer Credit: 3 One influencer flaunted her new pants on Instagram Credit: 3 This latest look has a matching shirt for €30 In the video, she flaunted the Frieda embroidered suit trousers for €30. Crafted from a lightweight crinkle-textured fabric, these wide leg trousers feature an elasticated waistband - ideal for belly-conscious shoppers. Pair them with delicate foliage embroidery, with a white scoop neck top and kitten heels for a chic seasonal look. Or better yet, style the trousers with the matching Frieda shirt to create a unique wedding guest outfit. READ MORE IN FABULOUS The matching top features a classic collar and a full button-through front. And this item is also for sale for €30. Sizes range from XS-XL in this stunning new co-ord. This is the set of the Most read in Fabulous Both items are sold separately online and in stores across the country. Meanwhile, fashion fans are going wild for the latest Dunnes Stores fans go wild for dupe tops that are perfect for summer One Irish fashion shopper, who posts under took to TikTok to show off the tank tops. Get the Loewe look at a bargain price of just €12. The original Loewe has Anagram tank top retails for €580. It comes in two different colours of white or grey. The ribbed tank tops can be dressed up or down - perfect for Style your dupe with wide leg jeans and a slingback heel for a classy dinner look. Or get a chic athletic look with black leggings, baseball cap and large tote bag. The Savida Bailey Rib Vest is available in across the country and online. THE HISTORY OF DUNNES STORES DUNNES Stores opened its first store on Patrick Street in Cork in 1944 - and it was an instant hit. Shoppers from all over the city rushed to the store to snap up quality clothing at pre-war prices in Ireland's first 'shopping frenzy'. During the excitement, a window was forced in and the police had to be called to help control the crowds hoping to bag founder Ben Dunne's 'Better Value' bargains. Dunnes later opened more stores in the 1950s and began to sell groceries in 1960 - starting with apples and oranges. The retailer said: "Fruit was expensive at the time and Ben Dunne yet again offered Better Value than anyone else in town. "Over time, our food selection has grown and that spirit of good value has remained strong. "Now we offer a wide range of carefully-sourced foods from both local Irish suppliers and overseas." The retailer's first Dublin store opened its doors in 1957 on Henry Street and a super store on South Great Georges Street was unveiled in 1960. They added: "In 1971, our first Northern Irish store opened, and many others soon followed. "Expansion continued in the 1980s in Spain, and later into Scotland and England." Dunnes now has 142 stores and employs 15,000 people.
The Irish Sun
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
‘Dunnes Stores is killing it', says fashion fan over must-have summer items – with prices from €10
A FASHION fan has bagged some gorgeous items on sale during a recent visit to Dunnes Stores - and prices start from €10. Fashionistas are set to overhaul their wardrobe with new Advertisement 6 The style lover said the quilted jacket is beautiful Credit: tiktok/@amylawlor12 6 The cardigan is perfect for a boho-inspired look Credit: tiktok/@amylawlor12 Amy Lawlor, who posts under Captioning the post, she said: "Dunnes is killing it at the moment!" Amy told followers that she popped into The first item she bagged was the gorgeous Savida Denim Quilted Collar Jacket, which is currently priced at €20, reduced from €40. Advertisement READ MORE ON DUNNES STORES The jacket features a folded collar, with crisscross detailing across the material and features two ties in the centre to keep it closed. She added: "So I just thought it'd be really cute for over the It would be beautifully paired with a white top, linen trousers and a pair of sandals - the perfect outfit for coffee dates. Moving on, she also picked up the stunning Gallery Bow Tie Knitted Fringe Advertisement Most read in Fabulous Exclusive The wool blend cardigan is designed in a crochet style and showcases all-over fringe detailing, cut to a sleeveless finish, and features two stylish self-tie closures. Fashion fans can pair the cardigan with denim for a boho-inspired ensemble. 'They were really elegant', says Dunnes Stores fan over new spring and reduced items Amy said: "You can even wear it with a long sleeve if it's colder but I probably just wear it by itself with a little tank top underneath." Next up, Amy bagged herself a viral designer dupe for just €12, featuring the lovely Savida Bailey Rib Vest - available in white and grey. Advertisement The vest top is crafted from a cotton-rich, ribbed fabric that hugs the body for a fit and features an embroidered symbol and a stylish low-cut back. It's a dupe of the Anagram tank top from luxury brand Loewe, which is currently priced at €580. This means that fashion fans can save up to €568 with Dunnes Stores' dupe version. She also bagged the gorgeous Cotton Crew Neck Jumper for €10, reduced from €20. Advertisement The jumper features ribbed crew neck and cuffs, with a wide ribbed hem and split sides that add a modern twist. Amy added: "I thought this was very cute!" THE HISTORY OF DUNNES STORES DUNNES Stores opened its first store on Patrick Street in Cork in 1944 - and it was an instant hit. Shoppers from all over the city rushed to the store to snap up quality clothing at pre-war prices in Ireland's first 'shopping frenzy'. During the excitement, a window was forced in and the police had to be called to help control the crowds hoping to bag founder Ben Dunne's 'Better Value' bargains. Dunnes later opened more stores in the 1950s and began to sell groceries in 1960 - starting with apples and oranges. The retailer said: "Fruit was expensive at the time and Ben Dunne yet again offered Better Value than anyone else in town. "Over time, our food selection has grown and that spirit of good value has remained strong. "Now we offer a wide range of carefully-sourced foods from both local Irish suppliers and overseas." The retailer's first Dublin store opened its doors in 1957 on Henry Street and a super store on South Great Georges Street was unveiled in 1960. They added: "In 1971, our first Northern Irish store opened, and many others soon followed. "Expansion continued in the 1980s in Spain, and later into Scotland and England." Dunnes now has 142 stores and employs 15,000 people. 6 A fashion fan has bagged some fabulous bits from the sale section at Dunnes Stores Credit: tiktok/@amylawlor12 6 She also bagged some staple clothing pieces for the wardrobe Credit: tiktok/@amylawlor12 Advertisement 6 She bagged the viral designer tank top dupe Credit: tiktok/@amylawlor12 6 The top makes the perfect dupe of the Anagram tank top Credit: Loewe
The Irish Sun
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
‘I'm obsessed', says Dunnes Stores fan as she tries on designer dupe top that's €568 cheaper
A DUNNES STORES fan has raved about the quality of the new bargain dupe - and it comes in two colours. Many Advertisement 6 An Irish fashion fan found the perfect dupe of a luxury brand at Dunnes Stores Credit: Instagram/@megankatemcg 6 The quality is fantastic Credit: Instagram/@megankatemcg 6 The Savida Bailey Rib Vest is priced at €12 Credit: Dunnes Stores Irish fashion fan Megan Kate, who posts on Instagram under Starting the video, she said: "Okay, this was not on my shopping 2025 bingo card, but I just got my hands on the viral Loewe-inspired tank tops from "I've seen so many people with them and I'm obsessed so let's try them on." Megan revealed the gorgeous Savida Bailey Rib Vest in white for €12. Advertisement READ MORE ON DUNNES STORES The vest top is crafted from a cotton-rich, ribbed fabric that hugs the body for a fit and features an embroidered symbol and a stylish low-cut back. Megan added: "Okay Dunnes, we see you. We applaud you. "I'm obsessed. This is the perfect tank for a pair of jeans. "Under a shirt, I think I love it even more. Like it's the smallest of details, but it just makes it look so expensive." Advertisement Most read in Fabulous It can also be She also compared the logo of the dupe with the official brand, and it's so similar that people can't tell which brand is which. Dunnes Stores fans go wild for must-have summer dress- Moving on, Megan also tried on the grey version of the dupe and she was left amazed. She said: "Heavy grey, it's so beautiful and I love the scooped neck on it like it's stunning." Advertisement It's a dupe of the Anagram tank top from luxury brand Loewe, which is currently priced at €580. This means that fashion fans can save up to €568 with Dunnes Stores' dupe version. And the bargain vest is available in sizes XXS to XXL. 'FAB DUPE' Megan's followers immediately rushed to the comment section to share their thoughts about the Dunnes Stores' dupe. Advertisement One person wrote: "Love these!" Another person added: "Such a fab dupe!" The third person said: "Rushing to Dunnes Stores right now." 6 The tops are available in white and grey Credit: Instagram/@megankatemcg Advertisement 6 A TikToker styled the top with a shirt Credit: Instagram/@megankatemcg 6 The top makes the perfect dupe of the Anagram tank top Credit: Loewe THE HISTORY OF DUNNES STORES DUNNES Stores opened its first store on Patrick Street in Cork in 1944 - and it was an instant hit. Shoppers from all over the city rushed to the store to snap up quality clothing at pre-war prices in Ireland's first 'shopping frenzy'. During the excitement, a window was forced in and the police had to be called to help control the crowds hoping to bag founder Ben Dunne's 'Better Value' bargains. Dunnes later opened more stores in the 1950s and began to sell groceries in 1960 - starting with apples and oranges. The retailer said: "Fruit was expensive at the time and Ben Dunne yet again offered Better Value than anyone else in town. "Over time, our food selection has grown and that spirit of good value has remained strong. "Now we offer a wide range of carefully-sourced foods from both local Irish suppliers and overseas." The retailer's first Dublin store opened its doors in 1957 on Henry Street and a super store on South Great Georges Street was unveiled in 1960. They added: "In 1971, our first Northern Irish store opened, and many others soon followed. "Expansion continued in the 1980s in Spain, and later into Scotland and England." Dunnes now has 142 stores and employs 15,000 people.
The Sun
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
The 1% Club players left stumped by ‘easy' food question – could you get it right in 30 seconds?
PLAYERS on The 1% Club were completely stumped by a food question in just the second round. Lee Mack, 56, took to the ITV airwaves over the weekend to present the latest edition of the smash-hit gameshow. 6 6 6 The 1% Club is a unique format that doesn't test players on their general knowledge like other shows. Instead, it tests them on their logic, reasoning skills and common sense. 100 players are whittled down, question by question, as they are tasked with solving different riddles. They aim to get to the last round where only one percent of the public could answer the final question correctly. However, nearly a quarter of the players were eliminated in the second round of the competition on Saturday's episode. A whopping 19 players were taken out of the game by an Anagram riddle, which was a question that 80 percent of the public would get right. "What common food below has had its letters rearranged into alphabetical order? ABDER." The answer of course was the word 'bread'. Lee Mack himself could not believe that so many players couldn't get the answer in the allotted 30 second time limit. "Good God!", he exclaimed. "I mean, unlucky for those of you that are out." The 1% Club's Lee Mack shocked as record number use pass on question - but can you get it right- Before he turned around to look at the answer, Lee added: "We lost 19 on that one?" The host could not hide his shock and apparent disappointment that so many players were eliminated so early in the game. He added: "It's bread. I'm surprised - I have to be honest - that so many people went out on that. "It doesn't help, but I'm only being honest." 6 6 6
BBC News
03-03-2025
- BBC News
How families were devastated by the cruelty of serial killer Peter Tobin
On the day police found a second body behind a house once occupied by a murderer, the father of a missing teenager raised his hand, crossed his fingers and said he hoped it was his McNicol was 18 when she vanished in 1991, after hitchhiking home to Essex from a dance music festival in father had spoken to countless reporters since then and it just so happened that I was interviewing him when 16 years of tortuous uncertainty were coming to an McNicol had been left in such a dark place that he wanted his daughter to be the person in a shallow grave, because it would mean the family would finally know where she was, get her back, and lay her to words laid bare the terrible cruelty of serial killers and they've haunted me ever since. A new BBC documentary, The Hunt for Peter Tobin, explains how the murder of a young Polish student finally solved the mystery of what had happened to Dinah and a second teenager, 15-year-old Vicky Hamilton, who had gone missing in central Scotland six months was a registered sex offender on the run from the authorities when he killed Angelika Kluk and concealed her body beneath the floor of a Glasgow church in September was 60 at the time. The crime was so horrific, detectives were convinced he must have killed Police launched Operation Anagram, a nationwide scoping exercise which tried to establish whether Tobin could be linked to unsolved cases around the months, officers realised he was living in Bathgate when Vicky Hamilton went missing in the West Lothian town in February 1991. Despite a huge inquiry and appeals by her distraught family, 15 years had passed with no trace of Vicky ever being link with Tobin changed scientists re-examined evidence from the time of her disappearance and found DNA from Tobin's son on Vicky's purse, which had been left near Edinburgh bus June 2007, Lothian and Borders Police searched Tobin's former home in Bathgate. In the attic, they discovered a knife which bore traces of Vicky's Anagram went on to connect Tobin to Dinah, who'd gone missing at the other end of the country in August cash card had been used in towns across the south-east of England, from Hove to Margate and Ramsgate in money draining from Dinah's account was compensation she received after her mother Judy died in a road accident when she was police found evidence linking Tobin to the card and established he was living in Margate when Dinah failed to come home. One of Tobin's neighbours recalled "Scottish Pete" digging a deep hole in his back garden around that Police thought they were going to get answers for Ian McNicol and his family when they went to Tobin's old house at 50 Irvine Drive in November 2007 - but instead of Dinah, they found covered the search in Bathgate, I travelled south to Margate with a sense of disbelief which was shared by the Scottish officers investigating Tobin's in Scotland knew the face of the smiling schoolgirl with the bobbed dark discovery of her remains so far from home was horrifying and baffling. How had she ended up there?The answer was that Tobin had killed Vicky in Bathgate, dismembered her body, and taken her remains with him when he moved to a new house 470 miles away in the south of the days that followed, as the police continued their search for Dinah at Irvine Drive, I interviewed her dad at his home in Tillingham, a small Essex village built round a Norman church. Ian was an instantly likeable man in his late 60s; a retired musician originally from Glasgow who'd named his daughter after a jazz the years, Dinah's disappearance had taken its toll on his health. We sat down and started filming."When I lost my wife, we knew she was dead because we had to bury her," he said. "We went through the normal process of grief."When a member of your family goes missing, it's 20 times worse than death because you do not know a thing and all sorts of things go through your imagination." He was taking some solace from the fact that another family in exactly the same situation had been helped, even though his daughter had not been turned to the camera to address Vicky's family and said: "If you're watching, from me and my family, good luck to you. We wish you all the best."The doorbell rang. Another reporter told us the police had just announced the discovery of a second agreed to continue the interview, raised his right hand with his fingers crossed and said: "If they've said that, please be Dinah, and get us out of this misery. "I would bury her next to her mother. So please, let it be Dinah."Later, after the police confirmed the remains were those of his daughter, Ian said he could die in peace. He passed away in 2014. In the BBC documentary, Vicky's younger sister Lindsay Brown tells of the impact her disappearance had on their mother Jeanette. Two years after Vicky went missing her mother died, her family said, from a broken footage shows Lindsay reading a statement to the media outside the High Court in Dundee in 2008, on the day Tobin was convicted of Vicky's murder, flanked by her older sister Sharon and twin brother all they had been through, what she did that day was as brave as it was difficult to said: "Vicky was much more than the girl who was abducted and killed by a stranger or a girl on a missing poster. We will always remember Vicky as she lived, not as she died." The detectives investigating Tobin's past were certain he had other victims. They did all they could to find answers for other families, to no took his secrets to the grave and was serving three life sentences when he died in came forward to claim his body. His ashes were disposed of at I was interviewed for the BBC documentary, the producer asked what I had thought when I heard the news.I told him I had been pleased and hoped his death hadn't been pleasant. Should I have been that honest? Did it cross a line? I don't I do know is that I'll never forget Ian McNicol or what he said to me 17 years ago: "Please be Dinah."
