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Sat 05 May 2007Greene's to close the coversLoose Leaves:If you want a last meander around one of Dublin's oldest bookshops, Greene's of Clare Street, you'd need to move fast.The iconic shop with the wonderful book-lined staircase, cavernous upstairs rooms filled with dusty tomes, and glass canopy and book barrows out front, closes on May 25th. From then on - in a move similar to that made not long ago by Kenny's Bookshop in Galway - it will be operating online. The new headquarters will be in Sandyford, where it will concentrate on its core business of supplying libraries, as well as schoolbooks and second-hand and antiquarian volumes, with an emphasis on books of Irish interest.