BREAKING: New gastro pub is being lined up for Naas
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The latest addition to the food and drink business on the high street in Naas town centre looks likely to be a gastro pub.
The operators of The Monread bar and lounge at Monread Avenue on the town’s outskirts plan to open the new business at The Five Lamps premises, South Main Street.
Robbie Kavanagh, proprietor of The Monread says he’s interested in opening an enterprise at the currently closed Five Lamps.
“A deal has been verbally done but nothing is finalised. I’d hope to establish a premises serving food as well. There is a lot of work to be done on legal issues as well and the solicitors are not yet involved, but I’m interested in the idea. It could turn out that we can’t take it up, but obviously we re interested,” Mr Kavanagh said.
Preliminary work starts on Naas Shopping Centre
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Work has started on the transformation of Naas Shopping Centre.
This follows news that local businessman Ger Roche of the Roche Group, proprietor of the Vista medical centre at Ballymore Road, is to develop the centre which was originally built by locally based developers Marshalsea - and was originally due to open eleven years ago.
It’s planned to open a major pharmacy on the site.
And there will be between 70-80 apartments, most of which will be rented with an emphasis on providing independent living accommodation for older adults.
Another difference from the original plan will be a reduced number of shopping units - to 20 from 40.
Kildare history: St David’s Castle has long been at the heart ‘Naas of the Kings’
Historian Liam Kenny reflects on coincidental news for Naas as the year drew to a close
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Dubliners, philosophic about long-waits at bus-stops, were wont to quote the old saw “you don’t see a bus for ages, and then a clatter of them comes along at the same time.” It seemed a bit like that in Naas in the third week of November when the fate of two quite distinct town-centre building projects, abandoned for years, changed in a matter of hours.