Tales from the Debenhams Picket Line
Sue O'Connell & Fergus Dowd
A STORY OF COURAGE, DETERMINATION, AND TOGETHERNESS
Tales from the
Debenhams Picket Line
SUE O'CONNELL & FERGUS DOWD
'406 Days' Film
406 Days - A film by Joe Lee & Fergus Dowd
'406 Days' documents the heartbreak, courage, and rage of those who stood firm on the Debenhams Picket Line. The 90 minute film, directed by Joe Lee and produced by Fergus Dowd, will premiere at the Dublin International Film Festival, 4th March at the Lighthouse Cinema. Lee has form at the Festival, having won Best Documentary for 'Fortune's Wheel' in 2015. The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has also announced that 406 Days has been nominated for a Human Rights Film Award https://www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-reveals-films-nominated-for-human-rights-film-award-at-dublin-international-film-festival/
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It was like a blur. My phone was hopping. Colleagues were so upset. It was so sad the way they did it. I worked twelve and a half years with no complaints, and they up and leave...where is the respect?
QUOTES FROM THE PICKET LINE
We are here for a peaceful protest; a sit-in. Our aim is to stay here for two days. We will be leaving on Thursday, September 10th. We have to have our voices heard.
VALERIE CONLON,
PATRICK STREET DEBENHAMS STORE, CORK
I was in shock for about four weeks; it was the facelessness of it all. You had nobody to turn to...to ask what happens now?
AMY HOURIGAN,
TRALEE DEBENHAMS STORE, KERRY
It was like a blur. My phone was hopping. Colleagues were so upset. It was so sad the way they did it. I worked twelve and a half years with no complaints, and they up and leave...where is the respect?
PAUL QUINN,
DEBENHAMS STORE, LIMERICK
By 9.30am Jane was standing in front of a guard, emptying her pockets, handing over her mobile phone, and being asked to remove her shoelaces. How has it come to this?
JANE CROWE,
HENRY ST. DEBENHAMS STORE, DUBLIN
It didn’t seem real. We were in the middle of a pandemic and life was surreal enough. And now the company was closing. There was no regard for us, no explanation, and no duty of care whatsoever.
SUZANNE SHERRY,
HENRY ST. DEBENHAMS STORE, DUBLIN
There were inches between me and the vehicle. It was scary, but all it took was one person not to move.
CAROL ANN BRIDGEMAN
MAHON POINT DEBENHAMS STORE, CORK