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Markets Area Of Dublin

CITY MARKETS AREA OF DUBLIN

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CITY MARKETS AREA OF DUBLIN

The City Markets area is located between Henry Street and the new urban quarter of Smithfield. This area is centred around the old Victorian Fruit and Vegetable Market on Mary’s Lane, Dublin 1.

Dublin’s Victorian fruit and vegetable market on Mary’s Lane is currently closed for a major redevelopment project expected to take at least two years. The council had planned to convert the eastern side of the market into a continental-style food market with a range of producers including butchers, bakers, cheesemongers, fishmongers and greengrocers, while retaining the wholesale businesses in the western half of the market hall.

However according to the City Council spokesman for the project, there may not be no be sufficient demand for the wholesale section of the market.

Earlier this year it was announced that the North Inner City is to get over €121m with money being earmarked for two ‘big ticket items’ – the new city library and cultural quarter at Parnell Square and the redevelopment of the Fruit and Vegetable Market near Smithfield.

FEGAN’S

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FEGAN’S 1924 A CASHLESS RESTAURANT AT CHANCERY PLACE DUBLIN

There is a sign in the window indicating that they do not accept cash.

I am not keen on the concept but a few restaurants owners have told me that the would much prefer to operate on a cashless basis for a variety of reasons including lower overall cost.

I always thought that it was Fagan’s rather than Fegan’s.

I was wondering why a new restaurant has 1924 in it’s name until I remembered that there has been a Fegan’s wholesale business at this location for a long as I can remember.

A NEW HAMPTON BY HILTON TO OPEN NEXT MONTH

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A NEW HAMPTON BY HILTON TO OPEN NEXT MONTH – WHERE THE OLD MOTOR TAX OFFICE WAS LOCATED

Hilton Hotels have announced that they will be opening their latest Hampton Hotel in February 2020. The development will include a 249-bedroom hotel located at River House, Chancery Street .

My photographs were taken at the Luas Tram Stop on Chancery Street and my understanding is that there will be a new entrance here to the redeveloped Dublin City Fruit And Vegetable Wholesale Market via what was the Fish Market [has been demolished and is now a car park].

Some of the ugliest buildings in Dublin were owned or occupied by the Government and one really bad examples was the six-storey River House at Chancery Street which was vacant since the motor taxation service relocated. In 1987, the original building was the subject of an unusual legal dispute. Frank McDonald in his book ‘The Destruction of Dublin’ attributed the design of the building to John Thompson and Partners but they sued for damages on the grounds they had nothing to do with the design of River House.

The site was sold for €8 million in 2017. At the time it was indicated that the plan was to build a 249 room hotel but recently I read in a local newspaper that it would be an office complex to service the needs of legal firms moving to Dublin because of Brexit it would appear that their sources were not good.

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