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Wed 01 Jan 2009A first glimpse inside Dublin's Ikea
As Ikea’s long-delayed Ballymun outlet prepares for its opening on July 27th, CATHERINE CLEARYtakes the grand tour and finds out about the company’s ethos and its hopes for the Republic
FOR THE moment all is quiet. But in six months time these polished concrete floors will be thronged. People will slide open wardrobes to dream of a more organised life. Children will clamber on crisply made beds. Meatballs and strange Swedish desserts will be eaten. And then trolleys will be piled with stuff people never came for but can’t go home without.
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