Iceland workers stage protest at Dublin store

Company operates 26 Iceland stores in the Republic of Ireland and employs more than 344 people.

Employees and their supporters pictured at the Iceland store in Coolock today. Staff have occupied the store in protest after they arrived to work this morning to find the store had been closed and shuttered with no notice. Photograph: Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie

Iceland Ireland has been accused of treating its staff “disgracefully” after staff at its Coolock location turned up for work yesterday but the store was closed.

On Tuesday, the High Court appointed an interim examiner to Metron Stores Limited, the company that operates the Iceland chain of retail stores in Ireland.