The State is considering suing the owners of Clerys to make them cover the cost of redundancy payouts.

Former Clery's workers will protest outside the Department of Jobs today.

The business woman at the centre of the controversial closure of iconic Dublin store, Clery’s, last year made €350,000 in a property deal with her own firm.

Former workers of Clerys in Dublin will hold a protest outside the iconic department store on O'Connell Street this afternoon.

Former workers of Clerys department store have staged a lunchtime protest outside the offices of the new owners Natrium, demanding a meeting.

The Jobs Minister said he is "totally unhappy" with the situation that unfolded at Clerys in Dublin.

Former Clerys workers are to stage a protest outside the department store's new owners' offices today.

Tánaiste Joan Burton has said that the cost to the taxpayer of meeting the redundancy liabilities of the 400 Clerys workers is likely to be in the millions.

Business Minister Ged Nash has admitted he does not know if all workers and creditors who lost out because of the highly controversial sale and closure of Clerys will be paid by liquidators.

IF there is even a grain of possibility in the suggestion in the report to Government on the Clerys closure by Minister for Business and Employment Ged Nash that, in economic terms, the State may well turn out to be the biggest loser as it might have to pay entitlements to former employees of the company then new legislation is required urgently.

A report into the sale and liquidation of Clerys says it is too early to know whether workers and creditors will get paid by the liquidators.

Directors of firms who act in the same manner as those behind the Clerys closure should be banned from occupying such positions for five years, according to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU).

The High Court has confirmed the appointment of joint liquidators to the company that formerly operated Clerys Department Store.

IF the Greek crisis shows international capitalism in its very worst light then the scandalous treatment of Clerys workers by that company’s new owners is a perfect example of the abuse of financial power at a domestic level. Yesterday the High Court confirmed the appointment of joint liquidators to the company which once operated Clerys.

The new owners of Clerys department store have refused to meet the Minister tasked with examining the closure of the shop.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has called on the Government to make sure that what happened to workers at Clerys cannot happen again.

Company law was not designed to enable people to walk away from their obligations to

Communications Minister Alex White has been accused of “patronising” former Clerys staff by claiming he could not bring in laws to stop capitalism after 460 people were thrown out of work.

POLITICAL catchphrases can sometimes come back to haunt the person who first uses them. Those who invent them usually just slink back into the shadows, unbruised, while they wait for their next client.

The announcement of grandiose plans to redevelop Clerys department store in Dublin strikes like a trespass on public patience while the former Clerys’ employees flounder in frustration, anger and bewilderment for some semblance of dignity, validation and due process.

Siptu said an online petition in support of former Clerys workers, launched on its website yesterday, was in response to “overwhelming public demand.”

The sudden closing of Clerys has shocked many people, especially older customers, who loved nothing more than to browse around or have a coffee in this lovely, iconic department store.

Stunning state pensions for Ahern and Cowen, but just statutory redundancy for the Clerys workers turfed out of the building like trash in a feat of financial twisting that was perfectly legal, but morally appalling, writes Shaun Connolly

So the deal is to pay workers less to work in an insecure environment, writes Michael Clifford

A group of former workers from Clerys have protested outside the company that now owns the store in Dublin.

Minister Ged Nash is seeking an urgent meeting with the new owners of Clerys.

Clerys workers were not given the minimum notice they were entitled to before losing their jobs, Tánaiste Joan Burton told TDs.

With reference to the Clerys closure, my advice to employees and to owners of small- and medium-sized businesses is — get used to it!

After listening to Enda Kenny’s profound words about how the staff at Clery’s department store had been treated, it made me wish that he had been Taoiseach since 2011, with the largest majority in the history of the State.

Some of the 50 businesses which had concessions in Clerys will be allowed into the building to retrieve their stock today.

Concession owners in Clerys last night found out they are to get back about €3m worth of stock locked into the iconic building since Friday.

The Taoiseach says the company law review group should examine the events surrounding the closure of Clerys which led to the “grossly insensitive and appalling” treatment of the staff who worked there for up to 43 years.

Liquidators at Clerys in Dublin have told laid-off workers there are no funds to pay redundancies - with the full cost to be claimed from the State.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said this morning that the treatment of workers at Clerys was "very insensitive".

The companies which operated concessions at Clerys say they are owed between €2-3m, and have valuable stock inside the premises.

SIPTU is today calling on members of the public to come out in force for a rally in support of Clerys workers this afternoon.

Trade union umbrella group Congress has thrown its weight behind tomorrow's lunchtime rally in support of hundreds of staff at Clery's store in Dublin.

Trade union chiefs are trying to track down those behind an Irish consortium which bought the Clerys department store and pulled down the shutters.

The Jobs Minister says liquidators at Clerys have agreed to meet unions and laid-off workers.

Staff at Clerys say they will protest outside the shop every day until the liquidators agree to meet with them.

Tánaiste Joan Burton has described as “absolutely despicable” the treatment of workers at Clerys department store in Dublin who lost their jobs in Friday’s closure.

SIPTU is calling on the liquidators of Clerys Department store to meet with them.

A joint provisional liquidators has been appointed by the High Court to the company that operates Clerys department store.