Shop, which dealt primarily in newspapers and magazines, mobbed by well-wishers on Sunday following decision to ‘pull the plug’
Cliodhna Ni Anluain with Eoghan and Brian Fay congratulating Thelma and David Hewett during their last day of business. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
“We literally just closed the door two seconds ago,” Mrs Hewett said in a call on Sunday. “It was emotional. Somebody organised a party outside for us with a gazebo, and the local restaurant did sandwiches. “Retail is a vocation,” she said. Sometimes you have to put on a false self if you are not feeling good, or you have this customer who comes in that irritates you every day. The main thing from it is the happy memories.
“There is a generation that has probably never opened a newspaper. It is very sad there is that generation that are missing out on the value of reading a full article.”
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