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FIANNA FÁIL TD Timmy Dooley has definitely bagged one vote in the next election, having chased down a thief and returned a handbag to an elderly woman in Ennis.
He told TheJournal.ie that he was driving down the street in Ennis town at around midday when he saw someone dressed in black with a hood running through traffic with a brown, woman’s handbag.
“I pulled in and gave chase and as I got closer, he dropped the bag and made his escape.”
He went back and found the elderly lady who was with a friend. The TD said the woman was very shaken by the incident, adding that she was “just dazed”.
“I’ve been mugged one time myself and it’s pretty scary.”
Dooley said the incident “speaks to bigger issues” like drug and addiction-related crime.
“There’s often a lack of focus on the cause of this crime. We talk about putting more guards on the streets but we’re going to have to do an awful lot more about what appear to be petty crimes but are really feeding an addiction.”
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Will they be looking for staff . My new dream. To work penny’s in New York !!
next month here in Boston. go on pennys!!
primark is a subsidary of a British company, associated British foods. No longer an Irish company.
Exactly as is stated in the article.
It started in Ireland so It’s Irish enough!
Its headquarters are in Ireland too, it’s only the headquarters of the parent company (Associates British Foods) that is in London (and that company was founded by a Canadian).
They are officially an Irish company.
The same way Guinness is an Irish company owned by a British Parent.
Or Fosters being Australian even though it’s not…
Wait… is Fosters even made in Australia?
The man who founded the company still works on the board of directors and frequents Dublin stores on a daily basis.
Andrew is also right, ABF was founded by a Canadian whose family still own the company. Galen Weston heads the family now – fun fact; Galen Weston originally opened A-Wear, which he wanted to call Gay-Wear until it was pointed out to him that the name wouldn’t fly over here. He also bought Brown Thomas for his Irish wife as a birthday present.
Can’t wait for this to land in NYC!
They’ll need to hire more Indians from the sounds of things.
Will have to drop penneys clothes for any USA holidays now, the designer chic will be gone.
I believe they have a whole lot of things for Christmas ….
Penny’s is Irish and its Primark in England which has their own buyers and which buy totally different clothes to what their buyers buy for their Irish stores.
Nah it’s mostly the same clothes in penneys as is in primark
Not true. Some items are the same, but the stores in every country have different buyers resulting in each country running different lines.
what will the US stores be called? there are already J.C.Penney’s Department Stores in the US
Why is it penneys in Ireland and primark everywhere else?
Penneys faced legal action from JC Penney when it moved into the UK. Supposedly the company had to rip down the “Penneys” name from a shopfront in the UK and the store remained nameless while they tried to come up with an alternative name. They ran a competition to see if the public could come up with a suitable alternative, and in the end someone on the board suggested Primark.
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