Brown Thomas

were you doing today mommy and how long are you home this evening yes i'm home to see and i think we're more the time that we do have is real quality

yes I know you make an effort and it's yeah but I think having look I understand people can give up a career to stay at home is is admirable it would never have been for me and I I do think that there are benefits to being able to see it like if you can see it you can be it you can achieve it and then like I remember I was spoiled rotten only child Celtic tiger you know the works both parents worked really hard like it was it was nice but I wanted a job like the second I turned 16 I had a job in Brown Thomas Thursday evening Saturday Sunday like I worked and I all did at

16 back then I know what's happening with this generation when I just wanted to work like I didn't need to why get the extra bit of cash have something to do social yeah have my

have my like, Oh, I work, you know, I just wanted to be that.

Sorry, I know I'm not pointing at you, but it makes sense now.

Concept designer for Brown Thomas.

Yes.

Yes, I work for Brown Thomas and Arnott's.

Yeah, I design the window displays.

Very good.

Um-

Where was he seen? Like, Brown Thomas?

I don't know.

I heard it was The Swan Pub.

is?

It's like a Brown Thomas.

Like a Brown Thomas store, yeah.

Yeah, kind

of clothes and cosmetics downstairs and like pottery and stuff upstairs and books and blah, blah, blah, blah.

And then there was Matthew Moran, one of Brian's closest friends and the person who would go to Annabel's with him that night.

Brian and Matthew were working together in the storeroom at Brown Thomas during the summer of 2000.

Brian had previously attended St. Conleth's College and Gonzaga College before going to Bruce College.

He completed his leaving certificate that summer and was only 11 days away from his 19th birthday.

center.Correct Like, there's loads of penny shops, there's loads of Devlin's if there's- Well, there was no Devlin's no- ... down the road or- There's no Devlin's anymore, unfortunately ... yeah, sorry.

No, but Brown Thomas or any, any department stores like that, the city is full of them.

They- Okay, so when you hear somebody like, uh, Kathleen or the lady Carly, who sent us the message in the first place, saying that there is a, a discriminatory policy, like Kathleen was in four shops today, uh, around her area, in the Liberties, and not one Irish person behi- uh, in those shops.

Um, she believes that there is a deliberate policy against the Irish.

I bought him a present, a shirt from a cheap shop.

And I went into Brown Thomas and queued up, pretended I'd bought it there.

And the little girl wrapping up the stuff for Christmas didn't know where it was from.

Put it in a Brown Thomas wrapping, gave it to him.

Of course, him and his family knew.

And it was so obvious that I bought him a scabby shirt and packaged it in Brown Thomas.

I felt like a skank.

But that's a lot of effort.