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Wednesday 22 September 2021
The company no longer has any stores in the Republic of Ireland – the five remaining stores here closed in 2016.
The State broadcaster has traditionally relied on such sales as a significant contributor to its income.
One staff member said they were told they would be paid today, but the liquidation occurred yesterday.
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Empire Records it is not.
It’s understood that the decline in DVD rental is causing the closures.
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First Music Contact has teamed up with HMV to give Irish bands the chance to play live in the HMV stores every week.
The store is in a different location.
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The new outlet brings the number of HMV stores around the country to six.
The chain went into receivership in early 2013, with a loss of 300 jobs.
The online store will be in addition to its five other stores in the Republic of Ireland which reopened two months ago.
The music store say they have been given no explanation why.
The app enables people to search for an album by scanning an album cover.
The three other HMV stores will open their doors on Thursday, September 12.
HMV on Henry Street will reopen this week with a performance from The Strypes.
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The Limerick, Henry Street, Dundrum and Liffey Valley outlets are due to reopen on either the 5 or 6 September.
Martin Doherty opened his store a few weeks ago under the name ‘HVM’. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he soon received a letter from a similarly-named music retail company.
Store managers and sales assistants are being sought for outlets in Dublin and Limerick.
Hilco, which previously saved the A-Wear business in Ireland, has bought the UK arm of HMV – and wants to come back to Ireland.
The four-storey building is up for rent after HMV closed down all of its Irish stores in February.
The receiver to HMV Ireland says each of the 16 Irish stores was loss-making and that it was not possible to find a buyer.
The move could see up to 1,000 HMV employees lose their jobs.
They ran out of Justin Bieber’s new album. There were tears.
Staff took over the @HMVtweets account – which had been dormant for weeks – to reveal significant layoffs.
HMV has gone into receivership, and its future hangs in the balance – what impact could this have on Irish bands and music distribution companies?
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While Hilco said that it believed “there to be a viable underlying HMV business”, it remains unclear what impact this will have on HMV Ireland.
The company will honour all invoices from sales of the single in its stores in Ireland.
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A spokesperson from Deloitte has confirmed that there are currently no plans to do similar in Ireland.
Protests at other HMV stores in Cork and Tallaght are also expected to end as the receiver has reportedly given written assurances that staff will be paid outstanding wages.
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There are now sit-ins taking place at four HMV stores across the country as staff demand to be paid wages they say they are owed from the troubled music retailer.
The person behind it, Stephen Macken, believes that the resurgence is “as a direct result of the receivership [of HMV] and people’s goodwill.”
Staff at two stores in Limerick are currently staging a sit-in over uncertainty about payment of their wages this month.
One Dublin establishment will take them off your hands…
THE SOUND OF a blaring mobile phone ringtone in the Dáil caused tetchy exchanges yesterday.
As Labour leader Alan Kelly was speaking about the cost of living the distinctive notes of a Nokia rang out.
Kelly asked the Ceann Comhairle Seán Ó Feargháil to intervene but the owner of the guilty device Danny Healy-Rae responded: “They will not ring you anyway”.
While his brother Deputy Michael Healy-Rae told Kelly to “mind his own business”.
With all that in mind, we wanted to ask: Do you have a ring-tone or is your phone silent?
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