GameStop shares plunged before the opening bell after the company fired chief executive Matthew Furlong, the former Amazon executive brought in two years ago to turn the struggling videogame retailer around.

Two months after a market phenomenon took shares of GameStop to the moon, the video game retailer said on Monday that it will sell up to 3. 5 million of its shares.

Videogame chain's shares down 54% in late trading

Congratulating Micheál Martin (Irish Examiner editorial, January 26) for surviving 10 years as Fianna Fáil leader is akin to damning him with faint praise.