Boyers closure to cost 83 jobs

Dublin department store Boyers will shut its doors for good at the start of next year with the loss of up to 83 jobs.

Its owners, Fitzwilliam Finance Partners, which in recent days completed the acquisition of much larger northside rival Arnotts, had been seeking a management company for Boyers for some time.

But Fitzwilliam Finance, which is owned by solicitor and businessman Noel Smyth, said yesterday that it had had no success in attracting an operating company and would begin an “orderly wind down” of Boyers.