“This is a very poor location and we’re trading as best as we can in this location,” is not a critique you often hear about Grafton Street, Dublin’s premier shopping district. Yet this is how John Lowry, Foot Locker’s real estate director in Ireland, described business these days, post-lockdown. Covid-19, it would seem, continues to make itself felt on the high street. Lowry was giving evidence via videolink from Southampton, England in a High Court rent row between the Irish arm of the American sportswear giant and its Grafton Street landlords Percy Nominees Ltd, an investment company controlled by Davy…

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