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and here is what you get when you buy an Ikea/GM car:

Ikea has announced that it will open its 31,000 square metre store in Ballymun in north Dublin on Monday July 27. Finally this brings and end to the long wait by those who are eager to see the store open. I would recommend avoiding the M50 that Monday.

The company will employ 500 people in its store which specialises in flat pack furniture. It will begin recruiting for 395 floor staff positions in the middle of March. The company has already recruited 55 managers and is about to start a recruitment drive for supervisors. An Bord Pleanála approved the store in 2007 despite concerns about its impact on the wider retail environment. It is estimated the some 2.3 million visits were made to IKEA in Belfast last year with large numbers travelling from the south.

I assume that the M50 upgrade wll be completed before that date, as I was under the impression that this was one of the requirements in the planning granted. Maybe, maybe not! I think I will give it a few weeks for the fuss to die down before venturing up to give a visit.
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Paul Reid, manager of the new IKEA store, celebrates the opening of the IKEA branch in Belfast,The store has the largest sales floor of any IKEA branch in the UK and will have over 9000 products

It’s a mecca for bargain-hunters across Europe.

And tomorrow, thousands are expected to flood through the doors of IKEA when it opens its first store in Ireland.

So hyped is the opening of the shop by the Swedish furniture giant, that a special traffic plan has been put into operation in Belfast. Additional PSNI officers will be on the beat and a PSNI helicopter on standby.

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