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NEXT, THE UK fashion and home living retailer, is set to close its store on Dublin’s main shopping street.
The chain have been present on Dublin’s Grafton Street for over 20 years.
A report in the Irish Times suggests that the firm is looking to move away from Dublin’s heavily-exaggerated high street rental prices towards larger, more spacious standalone stores.
The shop space will apparently be taken over by perfume and fashion giant Hugo Boss, which is expanding its store network rapidly since removing the majority of franchises from its brand.
TheJournal.ie contacted Next regarding what plans the retailer has for the central Dublin outlet, and as to whether or not the shop’s closure will involve redundancies.
While confirming that a closure is imminent, a spokesman for the store told us that the specifics of the deal are not yet known.
“At present we are still finalising a lot of the details relating to the below, so are not yet in a position to comment,” they said.
Currently the rent on the retail space is €825,000 per year.
It’s likely that the move will precipitate Next moving to a larger retail space.
Most of their stores in the Dublin area are now based in larger out-of-town shopping centres such as at Dundrum and Blanchardstown, with their Henry Street store set to be their only base within the city centre going forward.
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The only US president to be at war for the entire duration of his 2 terms is talking to us about what’s “irresponsible”?
What next, Shane McGowan telling us about the dangers of alcohol?
@Franklin Roosevelt: the only president?
You might want to look at your history books,
Also some presidents start wars and Trump will be one, he knows it will deflect attention away from him. It worked well for Bush after all.
@Barry Somers: what other president are you talking about then?
And Bush stole Ohio in 2004.
@Franklin Roosevelt: Harry’s not far behind him in taking an active role the war.
@Franklin Roosevelt: well, we did have the Syria war if you can recall? Also, nobody left to bomb. Trump got sold a pup really. Maybe NK? Even that is clutching at straws
@Franklin Roosevelt: LBJ’s presidency was consumed from start to finish by the war in Vietnam.
@Franklin Roosevelt: Well said a pillock
@methodical2020: ..all but the last one.
@Larry Doyle: LJB was president for just over 5 years, less than the 2 full terms like Obama had.
@Franklin Roosevelt: What a toothless argument. He was at war for his entire tenure, but he left about ten times less troops in Iraq & Afghanistan as Bush did.
He inherited two major wars, committed to scaling down involvement and realised that wasn’t working as well as he’d hoped with the resurgance of the Taliban and emergence of ISIS – and he was hit with the Arab Spring in the middle of his Presidency.
Did Prince Harry ask him did he have any regrets about regime change in Syria and Libya….Supplying weapons to the moderate rebels as John Kerry called them in Syria….Media never President Obama about that….Arming the Sunni side in the Syrian war via via Jordan Saudi Arabia and Qatar probable kept the civil war going there for the years of his presidency …IS ended up with some of the supplied weapons…..400000 dead and several million refugees from Syrian civil war….
@John003: Did he ask about the recent revelations of how Obama derailed a law enforcement campaign against drug trafficking by the terrorist group Hezbollah
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/
@JimmyMc:
Don’t forget his part in creating Libyan slave trade.
http://www.newsweek.com/obama-responsible-libyan-slave-trade-730875
And this little peach..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RanA7B2l6Kg
@John003:
Are you still persisting with your childishly simplistic narrative that the Syrian conflict was a two-sided war??
“One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities.”…says the guy who blamed the attack on the consulate in Benghazi on a YouTube video.
People are not allowed enter banks, post offices or shops wearing balaclavas and likewise those contributing to social media need to be identify able to identify orchestrated abuse, hate speech and fake narratives.
@Tom Newnewman: I fully agree with the sentiment Tom, but not with how you posted it.
@Danny Rafferty:
Explain yourself to Tom, you can’t just be critical with out backing up your argument
@Tom Newnewman:
If you read the comments section in this journal regularly Tom, you will come to realise their are lots of hate and negative comments on the traveller community, Muslim communities and other minority’s in society, the mainstream media is as much responsible for these views as well as ordinary angry people that use these platforms.
@Casper: don’t forget Catholics any article on the RC church receives vitriolic hatred
@johnp:
Totally agree
@Casper: What’s a minority?
@johnp: the institutional Roman Catholic Church deserves severe and openly expressed criticism.
The interesting thing is that criticism of Roman Catholicism exposes, through the responses, the deep and virulent streak of malign hatred which festers within that corrupt and evil doing institution.
@Fiona deFreyne: He didn’t say Catholic Church, he said Catholics. You clearly don’t know the difference between a religion and an individual. Idiots like you see criticism of Islam as an attack on all Muslims but at the same time see nothing wrong with attacking catholics.
@Dj: Fiona/tony/Michael has form for that especially, he/she is the most hypocritical anonymous poster on the journal
The obsession with the royals is a joke anyway. They went to mass yesterday and it was the only thing people spoke about. Get a life.
@James O’Brien: Last time royal family were at mass together was 1690….Its what the Battle of the Boyne was about….Royals going to mass….
@John003: I don’t care who wants to go to a church. I think the battles were about power – the notion that one group of people had to be made to suffer for not following one of the dominating religions. So one group of followers had to be conscripted and “win” and the other group and everyone else had to be conscripted & “lose”.
The old Christian church had a fad of burning heretics alive. The ancient Roman empire tended to let people worship whatever they chose to worship, so long as they weren’t killing each other over it. I think what people want is not to be oppressed. Back then it was all about ‘winning’ so that it was your ruler’s turn to do the oppressing.
Obama would rather a world were people took the views of CNN, Sky News etc…as gospel. Sorry Obama people aren’t drinking the cool aid any longer.
Harry is a fine young man – unaffected by little. Hope he visits us soon – he’ll get an even bigger reception than HRH and Philip….
@Thomas Blackcat:
If you love him so much why don’t you go live in his country and become one of his subjects
@Thomas Blackcat: back in the day when British Pathe Films was all the rage, during the war years the folks you deem royalty had to ask Pathe films not to show members of your community,the orange order parading around the 6 counties because the lads fighting in France,Belgium were asking the question why these fine able bodied lads were not in the trenches beside them.Pathe agreed to request and refused to broadcast the ‘cultural displays’ and instead broadcast clips of the lads working in overcrowded shipyards.
@joe oneill: they where they where call the 36th Ulster division . They where the largest of the three Irish divisions that had the greatest number of volunteers and suffer the largest number of casualties . It was the unionists in the north that defended this island in WW2 while republican south did nothing .
Obama is spot on . If you can put enough hate into someone’s brain , you can get them to believe anything . Social media is the perfect tool to do that .
@Tommy Whelan: They don’t like social media when they can’t control the narative.
US was built on the principle of free speech…Its why the puritans left England…On balance countries that control free speech Russia…China…Venisuala….Are not as nice to live in as countries that allow free speech….You can’t blame social media for rise of IS….Fundamental political Islam was around long before social media….
@John003: The puritans ran away to the colonies to escape free speech and to set up a society were only their version of God could be considered.
@Damien Wallanger: like nearly every country in the world then
Barrack Hussein Obama is a former president, not ex-president.
@Mark Fields:
Aren’t they both meaning the same
@Declan Hegarty: yes, that is the point. To add the prefix “ex-“ to the title of President is not correct.
“All the work still undone” ..by which he means he did nothing as President
Social media is questioning these politicians on their agendas, which of course these politicians don’t like. They like to do things without question. Shock horror but politicians can be wrong too!
I think social media is excellent for educating people on what the politicians are doing, or are trying to get away with. Social media has woken people up to the fact that politicians lie profusely to the public in order to push their own agenda. The got away with it before social media, they can’t any more.
2 war mongers. Redser openly boasted of killing people in Afghanistan.
worst US President ever
@Tomek Olo Łęcki: k
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