Chapter closing on independent shops is a bad deal for everyone

Local shops are every bit as important as parks, waterways, raised bogs and woodlands, writes Victoria White

THERE’S just nowhere else like Liam Ruiséal’s bookshop on Oliver Plunkett St, I told my husband when I got home from Cork last weekend.

There’s no other bookshop you could wander into and find rare books you’ve been searching for like Peter Somerville-Large’s The Coast of West Cork and Liam Deasy’s Towards Ireland Free as well as a cut-price True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey.