Conceived in the Celtic tiger years, the retail wing of the Point Village Development was meant to cater to Dublin’s new docklands’ apartment dwellers and the “coastal wealth belt” between Clontarf and Sandymount. But developer Harry Crosbie’s dream has become a 13-year litigation nightmare with six sets of proceedings spanning back to 2009 between the development, which went into receivership, and its flagship tenant Dunnes Stores. The various legal actions involve claims and counterclaims of contractual breaches by both sides, with the department store chain complaining over the years about the quality of the proposed tenant mix and the architecture…

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