Stringfellows closes after five months

IT OPENED in a blaze of controversy and publicity, promising to offer ‘high class entertainment’, but just five months later, Peter Stringfellow’s Dublin lapdancing club has closed its doors because of a lack of trade.

Those who campaigned against the club, including Dublin’s Deputy Lord Mayor Aodhán Ó Riordáin, said they were “delighted” with the news.

Peter Stringfellow was less expansive. His public relations people issued a statement yesterday blaming the closure on the protests, and the failure to open in November because of a licensing wrangle which caused it to miss the Christmas rush.