Yearly Archives: 2014
A company of developer Johnny Ronan has won its Supreme Court appeal against a ruling the €1.46 million annual rent for Bewley’s Cafe on Grafton Street must be allowed fall to reflect market rates. The end result of the various provisions of the lease was an “upwards only” review effect notwithstanding it was not expressed in those terms.
Supreme Court rules Bewley’s must pay €1.46m rent (Irish Times)
Judgment here
Meanwhile, back in February:
The Government was defeated in the Seanad yesterday in a vote on a Private Members’ Bill to end upward-only rent reviews. The Independents who voted against the Government included five of the Taoiseach’s nominees: Fiach Mac Conghail, Marie-Louise O’Donnell, Mary Ann O’Brien, Jillian van Turnhout and Katherine Zappone.
Government defeated in Seanad vote on upward-only rent reviews (Irish Times, February)
Give An Inch
atYour sartorial quandry is at an end..
The four main ways to fold a pocket square, courtesy of Mr Porter and Drake’s Of London.
Reapplying
atAnyone feel like donating to this schoolboy football club who've been fined for taking stand against racist abuse? http://t.co/zltcafgxdY
— Anna Carey (@urchinette) July 1, 2014
Eoin English of the Irish Examiner reports that a Cork schoolboys soccer club has been fined €200 for abandoning a game after one of their players was racially abused.
Irish Examiner: Schoolboy soccer club fined for taking players off pitch in stand against racism














