“From the state of the property, something has to be done,” Justice David Barniville urged upon the parties during last Monday’s Commercial Court hearing. After 25 years of the historic Iveagh Market lying empty, it is easy to understand the judge’s concern. But charting a future course for this iconic, listed structure in the Liberties in Dublin has at times seemed like an intractable hand-wringer of a problem. In 2019, an architectural study found the building was unsafe and in an advanced state of dereliction due to serious neglect and several damaging interventions. Now the market is the subject of…
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