Shoppers won’t forget how Clerys staff treated

The announcement of grandiose plans to redevelop Clerys department store in Dublin strikes like a trespass on public patience while the former Clerys’ employees flounder in frustration, anger and bewilderment for some semblance of dignity, validation and due process.

No explanation of legalities and no excuse however hidebound in legal daintiness can compensate for this lack of basic decency and moral fibre .

Perhaps the new owners are presuming that the Irish public suffer from collective amnesia and that the public memory of the callous treatment of Clerys’ employees will vanish like a dreadful nightmare?

Clery’s has a storied past. Nothing evokes the past more potently than the sense of smell. In this particular case, the prevailing smell is the stench of moral bankruptcy.

The former employees have been treated with inhumane disregard in the course of this crude asset stripping transaction.

Myles Duffy

Glenageary

Co Dublin