For more than 50 years, the bright yellow shopping bags from Gerry Keane Wallpapers have been a familiar sight throughout Dublin city.
Generations of the capital’s residents have decorated their homes with products sold by Gerry Keane and his sons, but now the city’s last wallpaper store is preparing to close down after Christmas.
“People have come into the shop telling us we cannot close,” says Eamon Keane of the business his father started.
When the family announced its closing down sale in recent weeks, an outpouring of nostalgia-tinged sadness followed.
“We’ve had people almost fighting with the girls downstairs and saying ‘You can’t close! We are four generations coming here.
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