Sucks for the staff, hopefully they’ll get everything they’re owed (if they do close) and find work soon.

I have to say, I’m gutted, I loved going in there to browse and buy.
In my experience they weren’t a whole lot more expensive then other places, well I suppose it depends on what you are looking for. I also feel sorry for the staff, I was always treated very well when I had an enquiry and hadn’t got a bad word to say against them.

I will miss them if they go. We bought a Nintendo 3ds XL for our 8 yr old at Christmas and HMV were over €50 cheaper then everywhere else. 2 years ago when we purchased a Wii again it was HMV were far cheaper.

Looks like their gone all right. A receiver is like an undertaker for businesses

Any word on why the Irish company have chosen to go into receivership instead of going down the route of examinership/administration as the parent company in the UK have? Seems like they are showing no desire to maintain the business as a going concern. This is quite insulting to the 300 staff in Ireland. Very sharp practice in any case to do this in January considering the amount of credit notes (vouchers) issued in the run-up to Christmas. Amounts to daylight robbery by senior management really.

Staff in both Limerick stores are tonight involved in a lock-in to try to ensure the wages due to them are paid

What are you talking about hmv being expensive, I rarely buy music and movies so don’t know about them much, but re video games I found hmv to be often cheapest. Many games 1-3 months old (brand new, old by release date I mean) they sold for 25 or 30 quid while GameStop or Game or Smyths, often still kept release price of 50 Eur.
Hmv was very good for games for me, best around. Sad this happened :(

pretty appalling behaviour by the company …the staff ( a family member works there…well did..) only heard on sky news the night before last that the group was calling in administrators in the UK , they understandably are very concerned about loosing jobs , meeting their bills and all the usual stresses and strains during a time like this , then the company instructs them not to accept vouchers -in fact they switched off the system that would allow the vouchers to be even processed. So then they rather discgracefully ‘opened’ for business yesterday expecting to sell stock but not honour vouchers -fully aware the front line staff would have to face the anger and frustration of the public- who-dont get me wrong havegood reason to be pissed—but then of course many went far beyond showing any level of understanding for the staff loosing their jobs…. but were up in arms over the loss of their 20 euro vouchers…..and to think that despite being put in that situation staff are now being told getting paid might be a problem….utter disgrace the way the company behaved here, the consumer association uselessness and the public havent exactly covered themselves in glory either. Shameful behaviour by a business.rant ends

Pay through the nose for music now as iTunes will become almost a monopoly.You cant bate a cd, vinyl etc. I like my music to be physical!

I think its so sad nothing will ever compare to going into a record store and flicking through the cds and picking up what you want. And nothing compares to having the personal experience inside the store and holding the cd in your hand and flicking through the covers its not the same just simply searching and downloading. Id still rather buy an album that download it!!

I’m definetly getting into the administration and receivership business, they’re the only ones who always seem to get a large slice of a non existence pie

Good luck to them. I hope they get what they are owed.

Shame dat. Better selection of games and cheaper than what’s in Xtravision.
Any chance of a Amazon.ie at this stage I wonder?

I have every sympathy with the staff but no one has mentioned the suppliers who are also going to suffer, small indepenent labels and distributors. The knock-on effect could be large!

I wonder how Golden Discs are coping..is it only a matter of time for them?

Sad news for staff…..not sure if voucher pressure was the last straw

My partner was laid off with immediate effect at 4.30pm, and so were many other great staff members. And possibility of not being paid next Friday is very real.

The day ( a little bit of ) the music died.

The End unfortunately for HMV and staff in Ireland.

Speaking purely selfishly for a moment, it’s such a shame. I’d say I’d go in to a HMV store for a browse about twice a month on average and rarely came out empty handed if I had the cash. But the signs were there – when CD sales were dwindling, vinyl sales were on the increase, and HMV Grafton St.’s vinyl section even up until last week was one box in the corner of their basement. Their music section on Grafton St. & Henry St. was moved below ground in 2011 to cater for Dr. Dre headphones and iPod docks that the majority of people weren’t there to shop for, but were prominently displayed presumably for their mark-up value. Like the music, though, the hardware was cheaper to buy online, and it always seemed like a mistake to me. Tower better not go the same way!

Goal of examinership to protect jobs, secure future of otherwise viable co. Receivership aim is to get ? back for secured creditors. #hmv — Conor Brophy (@cpbrophy) via twitter

This is one for Hugh – who owns HMV (Ireland) is it completely owned by the UK company? There used to be local investors involved.

The physical media market is on its last legs. It can’t compete with the convenience of iTunes et al. From what I hear, the next generation of playstation and Xbox are going to promote digital downloads over discs, so that’ll be the games market gone too. Sad really, I prefer having something tangible

Can u keep the petty comments about vouchers and prices of products for another day, some great people have lost their jobs today

No doubt the stores will open tomorrow as they now have some legal ‘authority’ to refuse vouchers.

They should start selling burgers

I’d say they’re Deloitted!

What about KPMG????

Who (i.e., which creditor or creditors of the company) appointed the receiver?

The only winners here will be Deloitte. After they take their fat fees there will be little left for everybody else, especially the staff.