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A TRADITIONAL Swedish log-cutting ceremony and lots of blue and yellow confetti marked the opening of the Republic’s first Ikea furniture complex in Ballymun yesterday.

Smiling employees lined up to welcome excited shoppers, and distribute store maps and tape measures, as Irish Eurovision 1986 entrants Luv Bug belted out Abba’s Dancing Queen.