Former Clery's workers have been protesting in the city this afternoon.
The SIPTU members gathered outside the offices of the store's new owners, Natrium Consortium.
460 Clery's workers were shocked to lose their jobs when the store was sold in June.
Yesterday it emerged that the bill for statutory redundancy for employees is €2.5 million.
Terry O' Sullivan, pictured above left, worked in Clery's for 41 years. She is still shocked by how sudden the whole process was:
"Oh it was dreadful, absolutely dreadful. I mean, I think people are still trying to get their head around it that Clery's is gone, that their job won't be there for them anymore and it's very tough for people. I mean to be treated that way. What we're trying to do here is even if it doesn't benefit us that it won't happen to someone else."
Many employees feel that they way they were dismissed was disrespectful. Gerry Markey worked at Clery's for 34 years:
"It's the way that we were dismissed. We were dismissed without any warning and without any respect. We deserve respect. A lot of us have many years service there, and I didnt deserve the respect of the way I was shown the door. I deserve the respect of meeting somebody across the table and paying me my proper redundancy."
One of the protesters was 84 year old Sean Whelan. He showed up to the protest today because he wanted to support the workers that he had come to know over the past few decades.
He was even the store Santa Clause for a few years:
"I find this very distressing. I grew up as a child attending Clery's. I saw the culture that was there and it was a lovely culture, the sort of culture you wouldn't find in any other store...But then these thugs came along and took it over for nothing else, only to make money."
Clery's department store was an integral part of Dublin for over 150 years.
The former workers are hoping that today's protest will help start talks with the store's new owners.
