New Owners Confident Community Will Support Reopened Offaly Shop

By Staff reporter · Midlands 103 · 9 October 26

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Grennan’s XL Store opened earlier this year.

The owner of newly opened shop in an Offaly village says he’s confident the local community will be more than able to support the business.

The former Gorman’s Shop in Killeigh reopened this summer as Grennan’s XL Store, two years after closing.

The premises served the community for nearly a century before closing in 2024, after over 33 years under Liz and Frank Gorman.

Willie and Carol Grennan are the new owners and also run the Grennan’s on the Green pub.

Mr Grennan says the business’s previous success reassured him that taking it on would be a relatively low-risk decision:

Reporting by Staff reporter for Midlands 103, funded by the News Reporting Scheme. Republished by News Room under the scheme’s reuse permission.