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'The handbrake has come up' on family-run businesses

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Menswear shop Connolly Man celebrates 50 years in business this year. The spring/summer clothes are in stock for what is normally a busy trading period ahead of the wedding season, and family events like Communions and Confirmations.

Instead, the shutters came down on the family's four stores, which employ 40 people in Limerick and Clonmel. "There was no business anyway," said Noelle Connolly, Director. "Connolly Man is not an essential place to be." It was also next to impossible to maintain social distancing between staff and customers, who need to be measured for suits, and even though the family business has not been ordered by the Government to close, the owners had no other option but to close their doors a week ago.

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