EASON and Son, booksellers and newsagents, is to open a new branch in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, where it has bought Binchy's store. Easons is believed to have paid around £460,000 prior to auction for the 4,000-square-foot building, which adjoins a Quinnsworth supermarket.

Lisney were selling agents and Mason Owen Lyons acted for Eason