Four Dublin city bars, part of the former Capital Bars Group, are for sale for receivers RSM Farrell Grant Sparks, with Des O Dwyer, guided at €12m all in, and with a combined annual turnover of €13.5m.

A GIRLS’ weekend away was on the cards for months. Time for me (and a willing buddy) to ditch the husbands and the childers, hit the motorway, fork out for the tolls and head to the big smoke. Our check list: shoe shopping, a concert in the O2, plenty of pubs and lots of lie ins. Dublin, here we come.

The Dublin city centre bar venue The Globe and Rí Rá nightclub, previously owned by the Thomas Read Group is for sale, guiding at €2 million.

Dublin restaurant Fallon & Byrne was today named and shamed on the tax defaulters list.

ALMOST 900 jobs were under threat in Dublin last night after the High Court appointed a provisional liquidator and interim examiner to a leading hotel and bar group and also appointed an examiner to a laundry company.

THE examiner to the Thomas Read Group, operators of 18 of Dublin’s best known bars and restaurants, wants the High Court to approve his scheme of survival for the hostelries rather than that proposed by the group’s largest creditor, ACC Bank.

The High Court has granted orders for the winding up of four companies in the Thomas Read group on grounds they have no reasonable prospect of survival.

A NUMBER of the capital’s well-known eateries were among food premises closed by food safety authorities in recent months because of sub-standard hygiene.

FIFTEEN million euro is to be spent cleaning, improving security patrols and landscaping on more than 100 of Dublin’s busiest streets.

Dublin’s 25th Gay Pride festival opens tonight celebrating the changes for the community over the last two decades.

Five people were treated in hospital after two men in a stolen car went on the rampage in Dublin city centre, gardaí said today.

Six fire brigade units battled a blaze early today at a public house in Dublin city centre.