Farewell to Clerys

Passing by Clerys on the bus and seeing staff of all ages protesting, I was reminded of the Taoiseach’s claim that we are “the best little country in the world to do business in”.

Indeed we are.

John Sullivan

Rathmines, Dublin 6

I remember as a small boy, one day in the late 1940s, standing beside my father inside the main door of Clerys department store. On the staircase in the distance, surveying all before him, was a figure who in retrospect looked for all the world like WC Fields. My dad, who was a trader in a provincial town, leaned over to me and pointed: “That,” he said (with obvious awe in his voice), “is Denis Guiney!”

Oliver McGrane

Rathfarnham, Dublin 16