When Patrick Keane and his family pulled down the shutters on their eponymous jewellery business last March, he had no idea what the world would look like when he pulled them up again. Initially, he thought the pandemic would pass after a few weeks. However, as his optimism dimmed, the third-generation scion of the Cork institution quickly realised that retail was facing a crisis it had never seen before. Keanes Jewellers was better placed than most. The company owned its flagship premises in Cork, as well as its other outlets in Limerick and Killarney, so it was not facing rental…

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