{"id":499503,"date":"2026-05-23T19:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/499503\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:51:16","slug":"preparations-underway-to-open-penneys-store-in-cavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/499503\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparations underway to open Penneys Store in Cavan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Minister Niamh Smyth met with Penneys, as preparations are underway to open a new store in Cavan town.<br \/>Minister Smyth met Fintan Costello the Head of Penneys Ireland and Northern Ireland along with Michelle Whelan Head of People &amp; Culture in Ireland to discuss the progress being made on the Cavan store&#8217;s opening.<br \/>The new Cavan store will be Penneys&#8217; 39th store in the Republic of Ireland and will be located on Cavan town&#8217;s Main Street.<\/p>\n<p>The store will occupy the existing Tesco site, which is set to relocate to a new premises at Townparks, while works have yet to commence,<br \/>Penneys has indicated it hopes to open the new Cavan store in Spring 2028.<br \/>Minister Smyth heard how the 24,000 square metre space will generate dozens of new jobs while driving a potential 40% increase in town centre footfall.<br \/>She says the arrival of Penneys will be a transformative boost to Cavan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local Minister Niamh Smyth met with Penneys, as preparations are underway to open a new store in Cavan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,55204],"class_list":["post-499503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-penneys"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116625636631277466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499503","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=499503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}