Iveagh Market friendships
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Unlikely friends from two of Ireland s biggest brewing families that were in competition for generations - The Smithwicks and The Guinesses - have united for a common purpose.
Paul Smithwick and Lord Ned Iveagh have joined forces to oversee the reopening of the Iveagh Markets, a Dublin landmark.
They tell The Business about their plans.
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Dublin Correspondent
A Christmas tree presented by Lord Iveagh has been erected outside the Iveagh Markets following the building s repossession earlier this month.
Lord Iveagh Arthur Guinness arranged the event as the start of a process to restore the market for the people of Dublin, according to a group acting for him in Ireland.
Kevin McGowan, founder of Abbey Life and former partner in Goodbody Stockbrokers, is the executive chairman of the group, while Paul Smithwick of the Smithwick brewing family will be handling the legal issues.
The ceremony revives a tradition, as a Christmas tree was erected on the same spot outside the market every year up until the 1980s when the market was in operation.
Who owns the historic Iveagh Market that has been lying derelict in the heart of Dublin’s Liberties for the last 20 years?
Dublin City Council and hotelier Martin Keane have been in and out of the courts trying to lay claim to it since 2008.
But Arthur Edward Rory Guinness, the fourth Earl of Iveagh, whose family built the iconic market at the beginning of the 1900s, has now put the cat among the pigeons by invoking a clause contained in the original deeds from 1906 to repossess it. The locks were changed yesterday, a new security company was installed to secure it, and both Dublin City Council and Martin Keane spent yesterday consulting their own legal advisors to establish where they stood, which appeared to be out in the cold.
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Legal action threatened over Iveagh Market repossession
Updated / Thursday, 10 Dec 2020
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Martin Keane s planned a Covent Garden style market and hotel scheme for the site
Businessman Martin Keane has threatened legal action against Lord Iveagh over the repossession of the Iveagh Market in Dublin.
Mr Keane issued a 24-hour deadline for representatives of the Fourth Earl of Iveagh, Arthur Edward Rory Guinness, to vacate the building and surrender possession.
He became involved in a legal battle with Dublin City Council while the market building remained empty and derelict for over 20 years.
However, in a solicitor s letter Mr Keane, owner of Oliver St John Gogarty s Pub and Blooms Hotel in Temple Bar, said there had been unlawful forcible entry by representatives of Lord Iveagh.