The much-loved staff member did her final round of the shop floor in Penneys, Carlow last Thursday after 21 years of service

The planned development site lies close to a pedestrian bridge across the River Fergus opposite the Abbey Street car park.

The company behind the Penney’s retail brand is to lodge plans for a new outlet close to Ennis town centre in the coming days.

The opening of the new retail concept represents a £2 million (€2.4 million) investment in the city centre and the creation of over 40 new retail job

He said it was “very sad” to see a popular Carlow retailer with “13 checkouts and only five people working at them – the rest worked by machines”

The new Penneys store in Bray was officially opened on Thursday by Emer Higgins TD

Located in the Bray Central shopping centre, the new store will span 19,600 sq. ft of retail space across one floor.

Abdul Rahman Mohammed (35) was convicted following a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court trial in February this year

Almost four in 10 (39 per cent) of adults in Ireland believe that their financial situation has worsened in the last year, according to the research

The site is occupied by the existing Penneys store with a number of other smaller retail units, most of which are currently vacant