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After 15 years in business, Liz Meldon's bookshop in Dundrum in Dublin was forced to make way for the new Dundrum Town Centre development.

After 15 years in business, Liz Meldon's bookshop in Dundrum in Dublin was forced to make way for the new Dundrum Town Centre development. Meldon, the founder of the Dundrum Bookstore, was unable to get a shop in the new centre, and started looking for a new premises last November. “Demolition of the old centre was imminent and we had to move on,” she said.

“I had hoped to find a place and ...