{"id":18832,"date":"2025-08-23T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18832\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:34:09","slug":"popular-limerick-store-closes-its-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/18832\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Limerick store closes its doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/live95-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Live95 News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/68a9a69ca5c71.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    via Live95 Picture Library<\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The closure comes as the city continues to experience a surge of retail losses.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Claire&#8217;s Accessories on Cruises Street has shut its doors this Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The American retail chain recently announced the appointment of administrators for its UK and Ireland business, putting around 2,150 jobs at risk.<\/p>\n<p>The company recently\u00a0filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States, its second bankruptcy filing after 2018, as a result of a slowdown in consumer spending, leading to lower sales.<\/p>\n<p>The Limerick store closure comes following a number of recent retail losses in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent closures include Starbucks on Catherine and Thomas Street, along with Schuh and the temporary closure of the well-known Noel&#8217;s Menswear on Bedford Row.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/68a9a3530370d.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Recent concerns have also been raised about the future of River Island stores in Limerick following the announcement of 33 store closures across the UK and Ireland, as part of a major restructuring plan to save the high-street brand.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fashion retailer has already confirmed the closure of two Northern Ireland stores, which are due to cease operations in January 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/on-air\/ways-to-listen\/?utm_source=Live95&amp;utm_medium=news+article&amp;utm_campaign=app_download\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6655efe7844a7.jpg\" style=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Live95 News via Live95 Picture Library The closure comes as the city continues to experience a surge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,3006,3009,3005,3008,3007,3010],"class_list":{"0":"post-18832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick-radio","13":"tag-limerick-today","14":"tag-limericks-live95fm","15":"tag-live-95","16":"tag-live95fm","17":"tag-live95fm-homepage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}