Brooks stores to reopen in bid to find buyer

Half of the Brooks Haughton timber and plastering stores across the country are to reopen for at least the next week in a last-gasp attempt to find a buyer for the stricken firm.

It is understood the High Court-appointed liquidator, KPMG’s Kieran Wallace, will reopen six of the 224-year-old Cork institution’s 11 national locations today for two weeks.

The units — at Togher in Cork City, Sandyford in Co Dublin, Bluebell in Dublin City, Tullamore, Co Offaly, Galway City, and Sligo Town — together account for about half of Brooks Haughton’s 225 staff.