{"id":670309,"date":"2026-10-30T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670309\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:08:10","slug":"future-of-employees-at-three-discount-stores-in-kerry-remains-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/670309\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of employees at three discount stores in Kerry remains uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The future of employees at three discount stores in Kerry remains\u00a0uncertain this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The parent company of Dealz, the UK&#8217;s Poundland, yesterday filed a Notice Of Intention (NOI) to appoint administrators.<\/p>\n<p>This creates an immediate ten working-day legal moratorium for the company to identify a possible outcome for financial difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>There are three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dealz.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dealz<\/a> stores in Kerry: one at Abbeycourt, Tralee; one on High Street, Killarney; and one at Deerpark Retail Park in Killarney.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to Radio Kerry, the firm acting as administrators, Alvarez &amp; Marsal, said they &#8220;have been working on a formal sale process for Poundland&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement continued that &#8220;any sale process creates uncertainty&#8221; and thanked &#8220;staff, suppliers and customers for their continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson did not clarify if Dealz would be treated separately to Poundland or sold with its parent company.<\/p>\n<p>Dealz stores remain open as normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of employees at three discount stores in Kerry remains\u00a0uncertain this evening. The parent company of Dealz,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,68304,61,60],"class_list":["post-670309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-dealz","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670309","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=670309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}