New store to open in Cork city shopping centre on Friday, creating 10 jobs

Music chain HMV is to open its new Cork branch in the Merchant’s Quay Shopping Centre on Friday morning, creating 10 new full- and part-time jobs.

To celebrate the opening of the new Cork store, the chain is offering free goodie bags to the first 20 customers through the doors.

Phil Halliday, HMV managing director, said the store’s staff were looking forward to the opening.

“The new store looks brilliant, and is a testament to all the hard work the team have put into it over the past few weeks,” he said.

“With more than 16,000 different products on offer, it has all the makings of a new pop culture hub in Cork. We can’t wait to welcome customers in on Friday to see all it has to offer.”

The new outlet’s opening comes 12 years after the closure of its Patrick St outlet.

The chain opened its first Irish store in a decade on Dublin’s Henry St in 2023, with a Limerick store opening in May of this year.

Receivers were appointed to HMV (Ireland) Ltd in 2013, leading to the permanent closure of its 16 Irish outlets.

Its Cork store at the old Pavilion cinema building on Patrick St, now occupied by Golden Discs, saw sit-ins by former staff members protesting over unpaid wages when the company closed.