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Letterkenny Rovers F.C.

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| ground = [[Leckview Park]],<br>[[Letterkenny]], <br>[[County Donegal]]
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| image = Letterkenny Rovers Crest.jpg
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| fullname = Letterkenny Rovers Football Club
| founded = 1936 <br/>(as Letterkenny Crusaders)
| president = Victor Fisher
| chairman = Eamon McConigley
| manager = Stephen McConnell
| league = Donegal League Premier Division
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[[File:LetterkennyRovers.jpg|right|thumb|Letterkenny Rovers in action]]
'''Letterkenny Rovers Football Club''' ({{langx|ga|An Cumann Peile Leitir Ceanainn}}) is an [[association football]] club from [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], currently competing in the Donegal Junior League Premier Division. The club is based in [[Letterkenny]] and the team play their home games at [[Leckview Park]].

The club won a historic treble in the 2024/25 season, winning the Donegal League Premier Division, the Brian McCormick Sports Cup, and Ulster Cup without a single defeat.

==History==
The club was formed in 1936 as '''Letterkenny Crusaders''' before being given its current name in 1954.

At the end of 2006, the club began preparation for an application for a semi-professional license to compete in the new [[A Championship]] but the Championship was cancelled at the end of the 2011 season. However, in 2010, the club erected a new 200 seater stand at Leckview Park in phase one of the re-development of the venue.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.uslfootball.com/contentPage/114080/l_e_t_t_e_r_k_e_n_n_y_r_o_v_e_r_s | title = Letterkenny Rovers | publisher = Ulster Senior League | accessdate = 6 May 2014}}</ref>

The 2015/2016 season saw Rovers, under the guidance of Eamon McConigley, achieve notable success. Having overcome Derry City Reserves to win the Knockalla Caravans Cup, the first-team went on to reach the final of the FAI Intermediate Cup at the Aviva Stadium, going down 5–0 to Crumlin United.

The 2021/22 season saw Rovers win the Donegal League Division Two at the first attempt upon it's re-entry to the Donegal Junior League under the guidance of Stephen McConnell.

The 2023/24 season, saw Rovers win the Donegal League First Division and the Brian McCormick Sports Cup.

The 2024/25 season, saw the club win a historic treble by winning the Donegal League Premier Division, the Brian McCormick Sports Cup, and Ulster Cup without a single defeat.

== Current squad ==
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{{Fs player|no=2|nat=IRL|name=Padraic Gilsenan|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=3|nat=IRL|name=Caolan McConnell|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=4|nat=IRL|name=Dean McCarry|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=5|nat=NIR|name=Keith Cowan|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=6|nat=IRL|name=Chris Malseed|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=7|nat=SAF|name=Billy Banda Jr|pos=MF}}
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{{Fs player|no=8|nat=IRL|name=Joel Gorman|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=9|nat=IRL|name=Lee McMonagle|pos=MF}}
{{Fs player|no=10|nat=IRL|name=Adrian Delap|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=11|nat=ENG|name=Nathan Plumb|pos=FW}}
{{Fs player|no=12|nat=IRL|name=Blake Forkan|pos=GK}}
{{Fs player|no=13|nat=IRL|name=Rory Gallagher|pos=DF}}
{{Fs player|no=14|nat=IRL|name=Gareth Doherty|pos=FW}}
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==Club officials==
:Source:<ref name=highland27820>{{cite news|url=https://www.highlandradio.com/2020/08/27/danny-mcconnell-takes-over-at-letterkenny-rovers/|title=Danny McConnell takes over at Letterkenny Rovers|publisher=[[Highland Radio]]|date=27 August 2020}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Position !! Name
|-
|align="left"|'''Manager'''
|align="left"|{{flagicon|IRL}} Stephen McConnell
|-
|align="left"|'''Assistant Manager/Coach'''
|align="left"|{{flagicon|IRL}} Anthony Gorman
|-
|}

==Management==
{|
|-
|valign="top"|
'''Managers'''
*{{flagicon|IRL}} Stephen McConnell (2021 - date)<ref name=highland27820/>
*{{flagicon|IRL}} Danny McConnell (Aug 2020 - 2023)<ref name=highland27820/>
*{{flagicon|IRL}} Eamonn McConigley (2007 - Aug 2020)<ref name=highland27820/>
*{{flagicon|IRL}} Danny McConnell (2003 - 2007)<ref name=highland27820/>
|width="75"| 
|valign="top"|
'''Assistant Managers'''
*{{flagicon|IRL}} Anthony Gorman (2023 - date)<ref name=highland27820/>
|}

==Colours and badge==
Letterkenny Rovers home kit is white jersey, black shorts, black socks. The away kit are blue jersey, blue shorts and blue socks.

The club crest is divided into four panels which feature [[Cathedral of St Eunan and St Columba|St Eunan's Cathedral]], [[Conwal Parish Church (Church of Ireland)|Conwal Parish Church]], a fish and a bridge. There is a football in the centre of the crest.

==Honours==
*'''[[Ulster Senior League (association football)|Ulster Senior League]]'''
**''Winners'': 2004–05, 2009: '''2'''
*'''[[FAI Intermediate Cup]]'''
**''Runners-up'': 2015–16: '''1'''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* https://www.letterkennyroversfc.ie
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071012192714/http://www.damienblake.com/2005/07/letterkenny-rovers/ Letterkenny Rovers Civic Reception hosted by the Mayor]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061212060248/http://www.donegalnews.com/soccer.htm New U-21 Manager]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061212060248/http://www.donegalnews.com/soccer.htm Fanad Utd Beat Letterkenny Rovers]

{{Letterkenny}}

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[[Category:Organisations based in Letterkenny]]
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[[Category:1936 establishments in Ireland]]
[[Category:Association football clubs established in 1936]]

Dunnes Stores

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{{Short description| Irish multinational retail chain}}
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{{Use Irish English|date=March 2023}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Dunnes Stores
| logo = Logo of Dunnes Stores.svg
| image = Dunnes Stores head office.jpg
| image_caption = Head offices in [[Dublin]]
| type = [[Privately-held company|Private]]
| foundation = {{start date and age|1944}}
| founder = [[Ben Dunne (businessman, born 1908)|Ben Dunne]]
| location = 46–50 South Great George's Street, [[Dublin]] 2, D02 RX86
| locations = 138 stores (118 in the Republic of Ireland, 15 in Northern Ireland and 5 in Spain)<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dunnesstores.com/store-locator | title=Store Locator & Opening Hours | Dunnes Stores }}</ref>
| area_served = Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Spain
| key_people = [[Margaret Heffernan (Irish businesswoman)|Margaret Heffernan]], Anne Heffernan, Sharon McMahon<br />(Directors)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mulligan |first1=John |title=Big shake-up under way in boardroom at Dunnes Stores |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/business/northern-ireland/big-shake-up-under-way-in-boardroom-at-dunnes-stores/36129310.html |access-date=28 November 2024 |work=Belfast Telegraph |date=14 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=DUNNES STORES (UK) people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK |url=https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/01756685/officers |website=Government of the United Kingdom |access-date=28 November 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
| owner = Dunne family (100%)
| num_employees = Approx. 18,000<ref name="auto1">{{cite web | url=https://www.dunnesstores.com/content/our-story | title=Our Story | History of Dunnes Stores }}</ref>
| industry = [[Retail]]
| products = Groceries and textiles
| homepage = {{URL|https://dunnesstores.com}}
}}

'''Dunnes Stores'''<ref>{{Cite web |date=1999-12-16 |title=Dunnes Stores Unlimited Company |url=https://opencorporates.com/companies/ie/317228 |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=[[OpenCorporates]]}}</ref> is an Irish multinational [[retail chain]] that primarily sells food, clothes and household wares.
It was founded by [[Ben Dunne (businessman, born 1908)|Ben Dunne]] in 1944.
In addition to its main customer base in Ireland, the chain also has operations in Spain.<ref name=Stores>{{cite web|title=Our History|url=https://www.dunnesstores.com/content/our-story|publisher=Dunnes Stores|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref> The format of most of the chain's stores in [[Ireland]] involves a grocery [[supermarket]] operating alongside a clothing/textiles store, although some stores contain only textiles and some contain only a supermarket. The grocery side of the business does not operate outside of Ireland, save for a limited grocery range in the Spanish stores. The larger stores usually contain a café branded as either Café Sol or Dunnes Stores Café.

Dunnes Stores' original own brand of groceries was sold under the ''St Bernard'' brand introduced in 1956, becoming an Irish household name, but was rebranded as "My Family Favourites" in 2013.<ref name="leeds and glasgow">{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/dunnes-to-open-stores-in-leeds-and-glasgow-1.251258|title=Dunnes to open stores in Leeds and Glasgow|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=2 March 2000|first=Mary|last=Canniffe}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://m.independent.ie/business/dunnes-stores-26240355.html|title=Dunnes Stores|newspaper=[[Irish Independent]]|date=7 April 2002}}</ref>

The main domestic competitors in the supermarket business are [[Tesco Ireland|Tesco]], [[SuperValu (Ireland)|SuperValu]], [[Lidl]] and [[Aldi]]. Since first opening, Dunnes Stores has consistently maintained a top-three market share in Ireland's grocery market, formerly alongside [[Quinnsworth]] and currently alongside SuperValu and Tesco. Combined, Dunnes, Tesco and SuperValu currently account for approximately 70% of Ireland's grocery market. Currently, Dunnes Stores is Ireland’s number one supermarket, holding this title since 2018. <ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2016/1121/833305-dunnes-becomes-irelands-largest-grocery-retailer/|title=Dunnes Stores overtakes SuperValu to become Ireland's largest grocery retailer.|work=RTÉ News|date=22 November 2016|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref>

In clothing, their rivals include [[Primark|Penneys]] and [[Marks and Spencer]].
Dunnes collaborate for many clothing/home wares collections from a number of Irish designers such as Paul Costelloe, Padraic Harrington, Carolyn Donnelly, Joanne Hynes and Paul Galvin.
They also sell in-house clothing brands such as Savida and Gallery, along with their own Dunnes Stores brand of clothing.

==History==

===1940s–1950s===
[[Ben Dunne (businessman, born 1908)|Ben Dunne]] began his retail career as an employee at Anderson's drapery shop in [[Drogheda]], Ireland, in 1926.<ref name="auto1"/> In the mid-1930s, Dunne moved to [[Roches Stores]] in [[Cork (city)|Cork]]. He rose to become a senior buyer for Roches Stores. When he was asked to oversee Roches' entire drapery business, he agreed on condition that he receive a pay rise. The owners refused, noting that he would be earning more than any of them. Dunne decided to leave Roches Stores and set up his own business.<ref name="auto1"/>

Dunne opened his first drapery shop on St Patrick’s Street, Cork on 31 March 1944, promising "better value" by offering goods at pre-war prices.<ref name="auto1"/>

Dunnes introduced its own-brand range in 1956, then branded as ''St Bernard'', modelled on the [[Marks & Spencer]] ''[[St Michael (brand)|St Michael]]'' brand.<ref>https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/news-analysis/way-ahead-for-dunnes-stores-uncertain/34180615.html</ref><ref name=auto>{{cite news| title=Dunnes plans 25 stores in UK and Spain |work=Independent | date=28 August 2000 | url=https://www.independent.ie/business/dunnes-plans-25-stores-in-uk-and-spain-26112560.html | access-date=24 April 2023}}</ref>

[[File:DunnesStore Limerick.JPG|thumb|left|Dunnes Stores on Harvey's Quay, Limerick]]

Through the 1950s, Dunne established stores in [[Wexford]], [[Waterford]], [[Limerick]] and [[Dublin]], with the first Dublin shop being opened on Henry Street in 1957.

===1960s–1970s===
[[File:Dunnes Stores - geograph.org.uk - 1080659.jpg|thumb|Dunnes Stores on South Great George's Street, Dublin]]
Dunne opened a large shop on South Great George's Street, Dublin in 1960. This shop allowed customers to browse through items on racks before making a purchase, which was new to Irish retail.<ref name="auto1"/>

Dunnes continued to expand during the 1960s, and in 1963, Dunne grouped his growing number of stores under a new corporate structure, Dunnes Holding Company, which took over ownership of the entire operation. He also set up a family trust at the same time, in part to ensure that the company remained family controlled.

In the middle of the decade Dunne sparked a new revolution in the Irish retail scene. Until then, the company's stores had operated, like the country's retail sector in general, in Ireland's city centre. In 1965, however, Dunnes opened a store at [[Cornelscourt]] in what was then Ireland's first out-of-town shopping centre. Although scoffed at by experts, who believed the company would fail at the new location, the Cornelscourt site was not only a success, but became one of the company's flagship stores.<ref name="auto1"/>

By the end of the 1960s, Dunnes operated 17 stores across Ireland. This increased to 19 by October 1971.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Keatinge |first1=Richard |title=Dunnes, Williams Lead in Turnover Stakes |newspaper=The Irish Times |issue=13 |date=20 October 1971}}</ref> The company remained intensely private and, despite an active advertising schedule, wary of publicity. As Ben Dunne explained, in what the ''Times'' described as a rare interview in 1971, "If there is one thing I hate it is publicity. No one is allowed to write about Ben Dunne. The people I do not like are the people who talk about what they have done and the people who talk about what they are going to do." In that same interview, Dunne reaffirmed his commitment to maintaining family control of his business, saying: "Public companies are like the government. The government has the privilege of spending money foolishly and public companies are no better."

In 1978, Dunnes purchased Crumlin Shopping Centre in Dublin, which had been built four years earlier with 41 units including 2 large units, and having Dunnes Stores as anchor.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2024/02/25/dunnes-stores-resubmits-plans-for-redevelopment-of-crumlin-shopping-centre/ | title=Dunnes Stores resubmits plans for redevelopment of Crumlin Shopping Centre | newspaper=[[The Irish Times]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.echo.ie/dunnes-plan-to-demolish-crumlin-shopping-centre/ | title=Dunnes plan to demolish Crumlin shopping centre | date=22 March 2023 }}</ref>

[[File:Dunnes Stores, Belfast, March 2011.JPG|thumb|Dunnes Stores on High Street, Belfast]]
Dunnes added its first store in [[Northern Ireland]] in 1971. The company continued to expand its retail business, and by the end of the 1970s, it had built up a network of more than 60 stores.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="leeds and glasgow"/><ref name="auto"/>

===1980s–1990s===
[[File:Dunnes Stores, Coleraine - geograph.org.uk - 2890736.jpg|thumb|Dunnes Stores on Bannside Wharf, Coleraine]]
By the beginning of the 1980s, the company operated seven stores in Northern Ireland.

In 1980, Dunnes opened its first shop on the European continent, in Fuengirola in the Costa del Sol in Spain. The success of that venture led the company to begin construction on its second Spanish store the following year, which opened in Marbella.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Canniffe |first1=Mary |title=Dunnes to open stores in Leeds and Glasgow |work=The Irish Times |issue=45697, p 21 |date=2 March 2000}}</ref>

By 1981, Dunnes Stores represented 66 locations, producing estimated sales revenues of some £200,000,000. Dunne, by then in his 70s, had succeeded in building his company into one of Ireland's top ten firms. Dunne also had been joined by his five children, Frank, [[Margaret Heffernan (Irish businesswoman)|Margaret]], Thérèse, Elizabeth, and, especially, youngest son [[Ben Dunne (businessman, born 1949)|Ben Dunne Jr.]] The company became swept up in political events in 1982 when Ben Dunne Jr. was kidnapped and held captive for several days by the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/dark-ending-to-kidnap-nightmare-1.1272455 |title=Dark ending to kidnap nightmare |publisher=The Irish Times |date=27 June 2008 }}</ref>

Ben Dunne Senior died of a heart attack at 4pm on 14 April 1983.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dempsey|first1=Pauric J.|title=[[Dictionary of Irish Biography]]|last2=Boylan|first2=Shaun|date=2009|publisher=Cambridge University Press|editor1-last=McGuire|editor1-first=James|location=Cambridge|chapter=Dunne, Bernard ('Ben')|editor2-last=Quinn|editor2-first=James}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=12 November 1965|title=You get better value at Darrers Store|work=Nationalist and Leinster Times}}</ref> Although the business was nominally handed to all five of his children, most of whom played an active role in the company's operations, actual leadership of the company became the responsibility of his son, [[Ben Dunne Jr.]]

Dunnes expanded into England in 1986.<ref name="auto"/>

In 1990, Dunnes closed the drapery shop it had opened on South Great George's Street in Dublin in 1960, which at the time had been one of Ireland's first self-selection drapery shops.<ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Byrne |first1=Robert |title=US-style Dunnes grocery opens |work=The Irish Times |issue=45936, p 36 |date=6 December 2000}}</ref>

Ben Dunne Jr.'s tenure as leader of the family business came to an end in 1992, when he was arrested for cocaine possession in a Florida hotel.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/cocaine-binge-that-began-it-all-26040280.html | title = Cocaine binge that began it all | work = Irish Independent | date = 6 July 2002 | access-date = 5 Mar 2022}}</ref>
The resulting scandal led the other family members to oust their brother, resulting in a somewhat public battle among the otherwise publicity-shy family.
In order to quantify and document the financial dealings of her brother, Margaret Heffernan commissioned a report from Price Waterhouse accountants, which was eventually disclosed in the legal case between the Dunne siblings<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/archive/1996/1202/Pg008.html#Ar00801 | title = Controversy linked to dispute between two Dunne siblings | work = Irish Times | date = 2 December 1996 | access-date = 15 Jan 2022}}</ref> (and which eventually lead to the [[McCracken Tribunal]]). In the end, the company paid IR£100 million to buy out Ben Dunne Jr.'s share of the business. The family faced other tragedies, as sisters Thérèse and Elizabeth both died at relatively young ages.
[[File:Dunnes Stores - geograph.org.uk - 809948.jpg|thumb|left|Dunnes Stores in [[Kilnamanagh]], Tallaght]]

In the meantime, the alleged unorthodoxy of Ben Dunne Jr.'s business practices, which included funnelling Dunnes Stores funds into the offshore bank accounts of a number of Irish political figures, brought the company once again into the limelight in the late-1990s. The resulting political scandal had an additional consequence for the very private company, when the government announced in 1997 that it would appoint an authorised officer to inquire into the company's business practices under Ben Dunne Jr.

Dunnes faced other difficulties as well during the decade. The UK retail giant [[Tesco]] had entered the Irish market by acquiring rival supermarket chain [[Quinnsworth]] and had gained steadily, taking the number one retail spot from Dunnes. At the same time, a new breed of deep-discount supermarket, led by the German [[Aldi]] and [[Lidl]] chains, had arrived in Ireland, placing Dunnes' own discount formula under pressure.

===2000s–2010s===
[[File:Dunnes Logo.jpg|thumbnail|Dunnes logo from 2009 until 2014]]
[[File:Dunnes Stores Ashbourne 2006-4-30.jpg|thumb|right|Dunnes Stores in Ashbourne]]
By March 2000, Dunnes had some 119 outlets, with 81 in the Republic of Ireland, 26 in Northern Ireland, 9 in Great Britain and 3 in Spain.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Canniffe |first1=Mary |title=Dunnes to open stores in Leeds and Glasgow |work=The Irish Times |issue=45697, p 21 |date=2 March 2000}}</ref>

Dunnes expanded into the Scottish market in 2000, opening a shop in Glasgow. It announced its intention to boost the number of Dunnes stores in the United Kingdom by up to 25, by 2005.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Canniffe |first1=Mary |title=Dunnes to open stores in Leeds and Glasgow |work=The Irish Times |issue=45697, p 21 |date=2 March 2000}}</ref>

In 2000, the business re-opened its unit on South Great George's Street in Dublin, this time as a grocery shop in a new format, adapting the American-style convenience store concept for the Dublin market.<ref>{{cite news |last1=O'Byrne |first1=Robert |title=US-style Dunnes grocery opens |work=The Irish Times |issue=45936, p 36 |date=6 December 2000}}</ref> By 2001, the company had opened a second store featuring the smaller format and had registered a new subsidiary name, Better Value Conveniently Yours Ltd., in what some observers saw as the company's intent on expanding its convenience store operations. In the meantime, Dunnes continued to open new stores, bringing its total to 125 stores. It opened its 126th shop on Henry Street in Limerick on 20 November 2001, again with a focus on convenience, "heat and eat", products in its grocery shop on the ground floor, with its drapery department located upstairs.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mulqueen |first1=Eibhir |title=Dunnes' 126th store opens on Spaights site in Limerick |work=The Irish Times |issue=46232, p 39 |date=21 November 2001}}</ref>

The company was said to have held buyout talks in 2000 with U.S. retail giant [[Walmart|Wal-Mart]], which had expressed an interest in entering Ireland. The Dunne family, however, declined and decided to retain control of their business.

In 2003, the Irish government appointed an authorised officer to look into Dunnes Stores' records. While the results of that investigation were to remain private, it nevertheless represented a new intrusion for the company's carefully guarded privacy. That same desire for privacy had reportedly led the company to quash a story slated to appear about Dunnes Stores in the ''[[Irish Independent]]'', which allegedly chose not to run the story in order to safeguard the yearly €1.6 million in advertising revenues provided by Dunnes Stores.

In 2007, Dunnes refurbished its shop at [[Henry Street (Dublin)|Henry Street]], [[Dublin]]. Also in 2007, architect Arthur Gibney & Partners designed a large commercial development on South Great George's Street, Dublin as Headquarters for Dunnes Stores,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiseek.com/2010/2007-dunnes-stores-hq-south-great-georges-street-dublin/|title=2007 – Dunnes Stores HQ, South Great George's Street, Dublin|date=18 February 2010|website=Archiseek - Irish Architecture|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref> which entailed the removal of some buildings and facade retention of several others, including the former Dunlop Factory on [[Stephen Street, Dublin|Stephen Street]], and the Connolly Shoes building. The building has a dramatic glass corner atrium leading to an internal street through the development. The facade to George's Street respects existing building heights.

The company owns 50% of the Asian fast-food chain, Neon.

[[File:Dunnes map.png|thumb|right|Countries with Dunnes Stores locations (in the United Kingdom, only operating in Northern Ireland)]]
In spring 2018, Dunnes Stores confirmed the closure of all stores in [[England]] and [[Scotland]], limiting their UK presence to [[Northern Ireland]] only.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/business/dunnes-effectively-pulls-out-of-britain-1.3431786|title=Dunnes effectively pulls out of Britain|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=18 March 2018|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://towercentre.com/shops/dunnes/|title = Dunnes|date = 5 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.buttercraneshopping.co.uk/dunnes_stores|title=Dunnes Stores|website=www.buttercraneshopping.co.uk}}</ref>

In 2018, Dunnes Stores commenced with a number of substantial refurbishments and expansions on some of its stores, including its stores in Bishopstown and Ballyvolane in Cork and in a number of stores in Dublin including Donaghmede, Blanchardstown and Swords.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.thejournal.ie/dunnes-beacon-south-quarter-sandyford-2-4123993-Jul2018/ | title=A Dunnes Stores 'retail transformation' project in south Dublin has hit a snag | date=12 July 2018 }}</ref> The refurbished supermarkets now contain a number of concessions including James Whelan Butchers, Sheridan's Cheesemongers and Baxter & Greene Markets Delis.

In 2019, new stores opened in Naas, Ilac Centre and the refurbishment of stores in the Jetland and Briarhill. Also in 2019, Dunnes Stores celebrated 75 years of business. The refurbished Jetland store included Dunnes Stores's first beauty department.

===2020s===

In 2023, Dunnes Stores opened a new store in Point Square, Dublin. It also extensively refurbished its Henry Street store for a second time.

Dunnes Stores introduced a voucher scheme known as “Shop & Save”, whereby customers who spend between €25 and €50 receive a €5 voucher for their next shop, and customers who spend €50 or more receive a €10 voucher for their next shop. This has earned Dunnes Stores a loyal customer following. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.dunnesstores.com/content/valueclub-promotions | title=Dunnes Stores | Content }}</ref>

In March 2020, Dunnes Stores introduced priority shopping for the elderly and vulnerable between 11:00-13:00, in response to the high volume of customer traffic in the mornings, a result from the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] where panic buying became an issue across [[Ireland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.98fm.com/lifestyle/dunnes-stores-introduces-priority-shopping-for-the-elderly-984736|title=Dunnes Stores Introduces Priority Shopping For The Elderly|website=www.98fm.com|date=18 March 2020 |access-date=2020-04-15}}</ref>

In February 2025, Dunnes Stores began demolishing Crumlin Shopping Centre, which it had purchased in 1978 and in which its own supermarket had been the anchor unit and was the only remaining business, to facilitate the redevelopment of the site and the construction of a new, larger shopping centre.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Burke |first1=Sarah |title=‘Farewell’ as Crumlin shopping centre demolished for new development |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/farewell-as-crumlin-shopping-centre-demolished-for-new-development/a2108740063.html |access-date=24 March 2025 |work=Irish Independent |date=27 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

==Controversies==

===South Africa boycott===
{{Main|Dunnes Stores strike}}

In 1984, Mary Manning, a shop worker in the [[Henry Street, Dublin|Henry Street]], [[Dublin]] branch, made international headlines when she led a [[Picketing (protest)|picket]] for almost three years against the sale by Dunnes of [[Orange (fruit)|oranges]] sourced from [[South Africa]], then governing under a system of apartheid, in which [[Ewan MacColl]] wrote a song about the issue. The [[Government of Ireland|Irish Government]] eventually banned all imports from South Africa until the end of apartheid, which happened between 1991-94. The workers eventually met African National Congress leader and political prisoner [[Nelson Mandela]] on the occasion of his conferral of the [[Freedom of the City of Dublin]] in 1990.<ref name=journal/> A plaque presented by [[President of South Africa]] [[Thabo Mbeki]], commemorating the action, was unveiled in Dublin in June 2008, and a street has been named after Mary in [[Johannesburg]].<ref name=journal/> Manning was invited to attend the [[Funeral of Nelson Mandela]] in 2013.<ref name=journal>{{cite web|url=https://www.thejournal.ie/dunnes-stores-strikers-nelson-mandela-funeral-1211393-Dec2013/|title=Dunnes Stores strikers to attend Nelson Mandela's funeral|website=[[TheJournal.ie]]|date=7 December 2013|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref>

===Bras for children===
In September 2011, the ''[[Irish Independent]]'' found that Dunnes Stores was selling bra-and-knicker sets for three to six-year-old girls. Dunnes also has padded bras for girls with a 28 to 30-inch chest, which are the typical measurements of nine-year-old girls.<ref>{{cite news|author=Sheehan, Aideen|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/retailers-selling-bras-for-girls-as-young-as-three-26768819.html|title=Retailers selling bras for girls as young as three|work=Irish Independent|date=7 September 2011|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref>

===Burma boycott===
An attempted boycott was made on Dunnes due to reports of selling goods made in Burma.<ref>{{cite news|author=Kevin O'Sullivan|title=Burma goods pledge by Dunnes after boycott call|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/burma-goods-pledge-by-dunnes-after-boycott-call-1.93292|date=2 August 1997|access-date=13 December 2019}}</ref>

===Mandate dispute===
On 2 April 2015, members of the [[Mandate (trade union)|Mandate Trade Union]] had a one-day dispute at 109 branches of Dunnes Stores. The dispute concerned [[low-hour contract]]s (typically 15 hours per week), income and employment security, and the continued failure of Dunnes Stores to recognise or engage with the Mandate Trade Union, contrary to the recommendations of the Labour Court.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2015/0402/691486-dunnes-stores/|date=2 April 2015|access-date=13 December 2019|title=Dunnes Stores staff stage strike in low-hour contract row|work=RTÉ News}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Orla |first1=Ryan |title=As its workers strike over unfair treatment, Dunnes responds with 1-day only online offer |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/dunnes-stores-strike-4-2024976-Apr2015/ |access-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Dunnes Stores}}
*{{Official website|https://www.dunnesstores.com}}

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