Owners awarded €45k in damages after tenant converted Cork city premises into bar without permission

The owners of a commercial premises in Cork city centre have been awarded over €45,000 in damages for the cost of remedial works necessitated after a former tenant converted the building into a bar without their permission.

Businessmen, Richard Walsh, Morgan O’Brien, Declan Field and David Brady had sued Joe Kearney for the cost of repair works to the building on MacCurtain Street in Cork which the tenant had operated as the Flux Bar.