{"id":201363,"date":"2025-11-26T15:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/201363\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T15:04:07","slug":"new-store-to-open-in-cork-city-shopping-centre-on-friday-creating-10-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/201363\/","title":{"rendered":"New store to open in Cork city shopping centre on Friday, creating 10 jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">Music chain HMV is to open its new Cork branch in the Merchant\u2019s Quay Shopping Centre on Friday morning, creating 10 new full- and part-time jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">To celebrate the opening of the new Cork store, the chain is offering free goodie bags to the first 20 customers through the doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Phil Halliday, HMV managing director, said the store\u2019s staff were looking forward to the opening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\n            \u201cThe new store looks brilliant, and is a testament to all the hard work the team have put into it over the past few weeks,\u201d he said.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">\u201cWith more than 16,000 different products on offer, it has all the makings of a new pop culture hub in Cork. We can\u2019t wait to welcome customers in on Friday to see all it has to offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The new outlet\u2019s opening comes 12 years after the closure of its Patrick St outlet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The chain opened its first Irish store in a decade on Dublin\u2019s Henry St in 2023, with a Limerick store opening in May of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Receivers were appointed to HMV (Ireland) Ltd in 2013, leading to the permanent closure of its 16 Irish outlets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Its Cork store at the old Pavilion cinema building on Patrick St, now occupied by Golden Discs, saw sit-ins by former staff members protesting over unpaid wages when the company closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music chain HMV is to open its new Cork branch in the Merchant\u2019s Quay Shopping Centre on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2736,79,2737,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-201363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-cork-business","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cork-city-centre","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115616616559551714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201363","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=201363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}