Westlife star Nicky Byrne once worked there. Multiple Eurovision winner Johnny Logan once modelled for it. Generations of stockbrokers and well-to-do men kitted themselves out there. Yet, the most famous customer of Dublin menswear shop Alias Tom was rarely seen there: the then Taoiseach Charles Haughey. His lover, the newspaper columnist Terry Keane, knew his sizes and would select the finest shirts and jackets for the Fianna Fáil leader. She was helped by her friend, the store’s founder Tom Kennedy. The story even goes that when one of the Guildford Four found themselves short of a suit not long after…

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