Clerys redundancy obstruction charge dropped

Prosecutors have dropped the most serious charge brought against businesswoman Deirdre Foley over redundancies at Clerys, writes Tom Tuite.

A connected charge brought against Natrium Ltd, which bought the famous department store on Dublin’s O’Connell St in 2015, was also withdrawn yesterday. Previous owners OCS Operations petitioned the High Court for liquidation on June 12, 2015.

This was followed by collective redundancies in which 460 people lost jobs; 130 of them were directly employed by Clerys, the court has heard.