The developer of the new Clerys Quarter in Dublin is being asked to fulfill a promise to prioritise former workers for jobs - and to recruit staff from the communities surrounding O'Connell Street.
The department store is set to reopen on O'Connell Street in the next few months, with Flannels and H&M its anchor tenants. The major restoration project will open to the public almost eight years after the iconic Dublin store shut down, with the loss of more than 460 jobs at the time.
In 2017, there was an agreement that former employees at the department store would be first in line for new positions. Now a number of politicians, including Labour Senator Marie Sherlock, have written to the new owners asking for a commitment to the former Clerys workers on this.
