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EVERY WEEKDAY EVENING, TheJournal.ie brings you the five stories you need to know before you head out the door.
1.#BALBRIGGAN: A man was shot dead in Dublin this morning. A woman was also hit in the upper thigh in the incident in Balbriggan.
2.#MCNULTYSHAMBLES: The ongoing controversy over Fine Gael’s nominee for the Seanad by-election rumbles on. John McNulty today stepped down from the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, saying that his resignation was not linked to the furore over his appointment, rather to do with internal rules. Meanwhile, one Fine Gael TD said people are “disgusted” with how the party is run, while a woman overlooked in favour of McNulty left the party.
3.#TIGER KIDNAPPING: Three women were taken at gunpoint as part of a tiger kidnapping in Dublin. The incident occurred in Malahide this morning.
4.#INQUEST: Dhara Kivlehan, who died after undergoing an emergency c-section in Sligo General Hospital in 2010, did not see a specialist for 60 hours after she was diagnosed with acute renal failure. The inquest into the death heard that the delay was “not appropriate”, but did not affect overall care.
5.#GOING NOWHERE: The chairman of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) says he has “no intention of resigning” nor do any of his commissioner colleagues. Simon O’Brien told RTÉ’s Morning Ireland that GSOC had learned from the affair and they “wanted to move on”.
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Good luck to them
Hmv has hiv its only a matter of time. Same as opening a black smiths tp fox wagon wheels its outdated.
My movies I download music I download games I download via steam its just silly and awful investment.
Watch this space extra vision. Remember chart busters?
What?!
This is great! Something to occupy me when the wife is shopping for clothes!
Good luck to them. As has been said I hope the old staff got first preference.
I know most of the staff from the Limerick store and they said that they we’re contacted about their old jobs so I’d imagine that goes for all 4 stores.
Best of luck to them. For the sake of the staff and their jobs, I really hope its not another Peats.
This is amazing love browsing around this store when im in town. Beats looking at clothes al time. Can’t wait to finish work today :)
Sadly the HMV in Cork was bought by golden discs.
Prices went up and the selection of world cinema section is now pitiful.
How are Golden Discs still in business? They always seemed to have high prices and poor selections.
I wish them well however it’s easier to download now and cheaper. Therefore I am afraid that the headlines may read next year again that they have closed. Peats comes to mind and they had a huge initial public outpouring and support. Internet has taken over. Again though I wish them well.
Awesome! Now I can browse movies I might want to illegally download later.
Have re hired old staff?
Hope not. Plenty of HMV staff were rude and unhelpful, if they’re any good they should be happy to interview with the other prospective employees. Sounds harsh, but that’s life.
To all the red thumbs: HMV failed because of an outdated business model, if they’re to have ANY hope of surviving this time round they have to style themselves as a pure music store that gives you something you can’t get online… great face-to-face customer service. I’ve been buying stuff in HMV for years and I’ve countless negative experiences with staff in various branches because many of them clearly don’t care about the job and have no interest in being helpful. I’m not saying everyone is like that, but it was bad enough that it’s something I’d associate with the brand. Having worked there before shouldn’t automatically grant you a job there now, there are plenty of people looking for a job who’ll take pride in their work. If a former employee already does this they’ll sail through an interview with new HMV because they’ll be able to communicate this AND show they have experience in the stores. If not, they lose their job to someone who’ll do it better.
The red thumbs may indicate that nobody else has had this negative experience with the staff in HMV. I for one have always found them to be quite helpful where needed but it’s music store, I don’t exactly need a world of guidance on my purchases.
I’m not talking about guidance necessarily, more like general enquiries about whether something is in stock or when something is coming out, or exchanging something defective. I’ve come across plenty of staff who were far more interested in faffing about on their phones than actively working and they lost the shop at least a few sales from me thanks to thta.
Never had any problems in HMV, always found the staff very helpful
Great, I’m genuinely happy for you. I’m just saying that your experiences don’t cancel out my experiences. If all the staff are brilliant, they have nothing to worry about and they’ll get their jobs back no bother.
You can also get very rude customers. I saw a few over the years.
Maybe they just didn’t like you Rob?
By all accounts the staff in HMV were fantastic. I hope they are re-hired. Good luck to you all
Sad to say but it’s a dying business. Why would anyone buy CDs in there when its cheaper to download it or buy it online.
I always buy CD’s! There’s not a huge difference in the price unless you’re downloading illegally which I guess you could do from HMV too but it’s a little riskier. I’m a bit old fashioned this way but I like to have CD’s.
It’s alright if you live in the smoke. For the rest of us it gets expensive very quick. Hope I’m wrong about hmv. But in the long run they need to be very very good
I have a deezer account so I never buy CDs anymore but I do pop into Tower for vinyl when I’m in Dublin and I still buy DVD and Blu Ray so I’m delighted to see HMV back.
I would have thought Grafton Street was their flagship store…?
The Grafton Street store has been re-leased. It’s now owned my Massimo Duitti. (Or however you spell it).
The rent for the Grafton Street HMV was very high, about 1.7 million a year!
I got a blu ray player this morning for 9.99 in there! Bargain! There was hardly any music DVDs which was a shame though
Was in the Dublin store this morning, lots of people browsing, very few buying, between Steam, Origin, iTunes and Amazon they just can’t compete on price and convenience.
Seems like a good turn around. There was a lot of loyalty in the HMV brand and I presume having gone through the sale the new owners believe they can run a viable business. I expect free from massive debts and huge rent outgoings it’s in a better position to trade. Live bands playing in a nice touch too. Must be great for the old HMV staff as well.
Finally at last HMV is back :-) yesssss
Golden Discs just didn’t match up !
Only have experience dealing with the staff in Limerick. They were excellent and always helpful. Nice shop to browse in for an afternoon, and great for boxsets etc. Good luck to them. I pity the poor people who swaped their vouchers for a sandwich in some of the city bars, bummer.
*runs to check price of GTA*
Gift card redemption is a joke. You have to submit details then send the original carf back by registered post within 4 weeks. Then a new one will be sent out which must be used within another 4 weeks
Things have to change enormously for this business to be competitive. I never found their staff to be very knowledgeable about the product they were selling, prices were not competitive plus we always have the added cost of travelling to city centre/parkling/petrol/bus fare, whatever.
Honestly, I can’t see how they can compete against any online retailer. Few clicks and voilá, I have a CD sent to my workplace. Or even better, a few taps on my phone and I download the song I was listening to on the radio.
Worked for them years ago, without a doubt worst job I ever had. Management were more concerned about staff wearing the correct uniform and being clean shaven than being knowledgable of the product being sold.
Hope they change the business model. Was in a HMV in the UK the other day and the choice of CD was limited to say the least. More space given over to headphones than music. Nothing nicer than browsing through music and finding some hidden gems
Are they selling condoms again? Oh, wait a sec..
Best of luck for good business and to all the staff
Great news. Love that place.
This is absolutely fantastic news, staff (was/is) great, perfect selection.
I’ve met one or two of these hilco lads, they are ignorant, they walk around lime they own the world, restructure? Either extravision or hmv will be morphed into one over time, and also watch for the Xmas cards in hmv or extravision, next week wait and see, you heard it here first.
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