Tributes are being paid ahead of the closure of a long standing business in the heart of Thurles.
Fitzgibbons Furniture Store which has been trading for almost 130 years is set to shut up shop in the coming days.
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Crippling rates are being blamed in part for the decision and at this months meeting of the Thurles Templemore Municipal District there were calls for the issue of commercial rates to be addressed.
Fianna Fail's Jackie Cahill says square metres is not a way to measure profitability – a view echoed by his party colleague Seamus Hanafin who says its a sad time for the town.
