Praying for Clerys staff

The sudden closing of Clerys has shocked many people, especially older customers, who loved nothing more than to browse around or have a coffee in this lovely, iconic department store.

I left Dublin in 1972, and to me Clerys was so much a part of the city, as the song says, “in the rare auld times”.

But the real tragedy here is the 400-plus people left jobless.