Pub escapes demolition after permission for apartments refused

 Quinns Pub on the Lower Drumcondra Road will not be knocked after planning for apartments on the site of the Dublin Northside pub was refused. Photo: Gareth Chaney, Collins

Plans to develop an apartment complex and shops on the site of Quinn’s pub in Drumcondra have been rejected as Dublin City Council said its promoters had failed to justify the proposed demolition of the famous northside meeting place.

Council planners ruled the pub, which was once owned by the bankrupt billionaire businessman, Seán Quinn, was “a building of architectural and social significance”.