Shopping centre chiefs deny rent row behind 100 job losses

MANAGEMENT at the Blanchardstown Centre in Dublin have denied that a row over rents is to blame for the loss of more than 100 jobs.

Trade union Mandate said staff of the eight Arcadia Group shops in the centre were told yesterday that their stores would close in September.

Mandate’s divisional organiser Brendan O’Hanlon, said Arcadia management told staff that the stores would close because of the refusal of the centre’s management to agree to a rental reduction.