Staff told 'they’ll be gotten on way home' as retailers highlight shoplifting issues

Damage to a shop in Dublin following the riots in the city. File picture: RollingNews.ie

A Dublin retailer has described how the recent riots in the city had made him feel “very prophetic” after he wrote to Justice Minister Helen McEntee in July to tell her that “something very serious is going to happen”.

Michael O’Sullivan, the proprietor of a Spar on Talbot Street, just off O’Connell Street in the city centre, wrote to Ms McEntee after an assault on American tourist Stephen Termini close to his shop, which left Mr Termini in a coma, to say the incident had been “nothing unusual for me”.