Greenlight for Goldman Sachs to buy Blanchardstown Shopping Centre     

The sale includes the main retail centre, the nearby retail parks, outdoor shops, and a five-storey office building

People queue outside Krispy Kreme’s store in Blanchardstown Shopping Centre — the second largest mall in Ireland. Picture: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland.

The acquisition of Blanchardstown Shopping Centre — the second largest mall in Ireland — by Wall Street investment giant  Goldman Sachs has got the green light from the Irish competition watchdog.

Goldman Sachs is buying the centre and an adjacent office block from another US fund, Blackstone, which bought it for around €1bn in 2016, with part of the financing of that deal having been provided by Goldman Sachs.