When shoppers do venture back to city centres and shopping centres later this year, things are going to look and feel very different. The Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly accelerated a move towards online shopping and any high street brand that was already flailing will have disappeared from Irish towns and cities, bringing with them the loss of thousands of Irish jobs. Many of the absences will be British brands including the eleven Debenhams department stores on shopping streets from Dublin and Cork to Newbridge, Galway, Limerick, Tralee and Waterford. Other stores that will be gone include Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, Wallis and Miss Selfridge.