{"id":285157,"date":"2026-02-07T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285157\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T05:14:08","slug":"blow-for-retail-as-popular-discount-store-in-limerick-city-set-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285157\/","title":{"rendered":"Blow for retail as popular discount store in Limerick city set to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A WELL-KNOWN discount <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/233\/business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">retailer<\/a> in Limerick city centre is preparing to close its doors, with the Dealz store at Unit 7 on Bedford Row set to cease trading on March 21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A clearance sale began at the store on Thursday ahead of its planned closure next month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A representative for Dealz said no other store is impacted by this closure. &#8220;It goes without saying we will do all we can to look for other opportunities for colleagues impacted by Limerick\u2019s closure, as part of our consultation with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/business\/2007047\/new-partner-appointed-at-well-known-limerick-law-company-homs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New partner appointed at well-known Limerick law company HOMS<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Dealz in the Republic of Ireland was not\u00a0part of any restructuring that Poundland in the UK put in place last year \u2013 it\u2019s court-approved restructuring programme did not cover, and has never covered, the Republic of Ireland or Isle of Man,&#8221; the Dealz representative explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Poundland\u2019s restructure-related store closure programme has concluded, with it ending 2025 with 651 locations, compared to c800 prior to reorganisation. No Republic of Ireland Dealz store was impacted by these closures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Any future and current closures are a consequence of standard business-as-usual lease events expected at a retailer with a large store network,\u00a0not\u00a0because of the restructure. I\u2019m afraid that&#8217;s the case in Limerick for our Dealz store \u2013 we\u2019ve been unable to secure lease terms that would enable us to keep trading there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A WELL-KNOWN discount retailer in Limerick city centre is preparing to close its doors, with the Dealz store&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[89750,72,61,60,1396,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-285157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bedford-row","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick","13":"tag-limerick-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}