Last Monday, the High Court formally wound up Chequer Catering Ltd, the company behind The Green Hen restaurant on Dublin’s Exchequer Street. The writing had long been on the wall for the popular French-style bistro, opened in 2010 – long before this week’s court order and long before a provisional liquidator closed the doors of the business to diners on December 20 at the height of the busy festive season, leaving 36 employees out of a job. At this week’s liquidation hearing, barrister Arthur Cunningham, acting for the Revenue Commissioners, told the court that between October 2020 and December 2024,…

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