Workers at HMV who lost their jobs when the retail chain went into liquidation will have their redundancy payments promptly dealt with, according to Minister for Social Protection, Leo Varadkar.

More than 50 former staff of four HMV stores here are facing the prospect of having to turn to the State for the money owed to them, after being told the music retailer is going into liquidation.

Twenty-six new HMV stores are to open around the country as specialist ‘shop-in-shop’ projects within Xtra-vision outlets in the coming months.

TWO well-known public figures in Limerick have been caught on camera in a steamy late-night tryst in a city car park.