I love that Lord Iveagh, Arthur Edward Rory Guinness, the Fourth Earl of Iveagh, the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the original Arthur Guinness, is represented by a Mr Paul Smithwick.
Stout man, Ed… #iveaghmarket pic.twitter.com/JxoFL5vwIe— Peter Reid (@peterkinvara) December 8, 2020
Hic.
Repossession a new twist in Iveagh Market planning row (RTÉ)
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A Smithwick with a Guinness head….
…aka a black and tan…
Bravo!
This truly is fantastic news. I don’t know what Martin Keane was really up to but 17 years was too long to let such an important piece of a heritage site go to seed. Plus with the reputation of Blooms Hotel, Gogarty’s pub etc I wouldn’t of had too much faith in any venture here. Would of been cheap high profit Paddy Whackery at best.
Agree. We have been likely spared what could have become a crass emporium styled “The Iveagh Quarter”.
Let a listed building rot until it’s declared unsafe, bulldoze it in the middle of the night and throw up a glass fronted carbunkle of hotel rooms/co-living/student accommodation (aka future tenement slum)
where yerman Iveagh been for the last 17 years?
13 years sitting idle, a huge development space doing nothing for the community, nothing for the city. How is DCC so powerless and its left to some old guy to move things.
Answer: money.
Possibly
But I’m inclined to doubt it
Since DCC is capable of raising funds for whatever it wants
I’m open to being convinced otherwise
But until then
I’m looking at the Council Chamber itself
And the different influences and weighted votes that have pickled it for years
Particularly where social and public amenity, public interest developments and investments
+ PPPs are in the mix
Corruption and the property market run deep in Ireland. There’s so many derelict buildings all over Dublin, wasting space.
And most of them are owned by Diageo.
I applaud this muscular action.
The nice thing about Rory Guinness is he has all that money but his values are very grounded. Old money and a heritage he knows how to protect
Great news
Topped by a great Header
Hon’ Bodger
Please let this be the story of the day
Or week
This is what we should be Crowdfussing and Crowdfeuding about
Ta, V!
Great news