Honest2Goodness Market Slaney Close Glasnevin Closing !

Yeah I heard a stallholder telling a customer the other week, the rent negotiations on the building are not working out for them.

Greedy landlords ruining everything again.

I love going down there every Saturday, the coffee shop always has some great beans to buy, the pork butcher has an amazing selection of sausages and me and my son love picking out a different one each week, over to the baker for floury baps and maybe another stall for some sauce to put on with the sausages when we get home. And some lovely flowers for my wife.

I absolutely love the stall with all the olives, dips etc - it's a great place to get a nice spread for dinner.

I always buy easter eggs from the Proper Chocolate Company too, their chocolate is out of this world delicious.

The end of December is when the current lease runs out, and they haven't been able to agree a new arrangement.

Just put up on their FB page.

These are the kind of community services that the council should be supporting.

Rent or Buy the property and lease it at nominal rent to the stall holders.

DCC are useless.

The only silver lining is that there are numerous privately run markets in the pipeline acorss the city, includimg the Wright market at Howth Castle, The St Andrews Church Market in the City Centre and the Google Market at Bolands Mill, all due onstream by 2025.

But the council itself does zero to support its own citizens in this regard.

It's a shame they cant be voted out.

I could only see one comment from a stallholder, a fairly nonsensical legal threat from your man from the Whole Hogg. Which other stallholders commented?

There’s a website set up to try to save or relocate the market, there are social media links on the page too - glasnevinfoodmarket .com (sorry won’t let me post a link)

Would be a massive shame to lose such an important local amenity, please give them your support!

Small markets in parks are good, but they are on the fringe of what should be delivered by a city council overseeing a first world european capital city, which is one of the 30 largest urban areas in the European Union.

There are numerous market facilities in the city that have been left to rot over decades. Smithfield Market & Iveagh Market being good examples.

They are fantastic, historic facilities that should be serving our communities. If buildings like that were in London or Berlin, they would be thriving.

The city council do not clean thoroughly nor often enough and they seem obsessed with laying paving stones that stain almost immediatley and constantly make the city look dirty, often the day after the paving is completed.

DCC could have CPO'd Iveagh Markets years back and they have mishandled Smithfield Market for decades.

There have been private companies that have put on succesful events in Smithfield Market recently, made the area compliant, paid for all costs etc.

Yet DCC are telling us its still years away from becoming a working market. Its embarrasing.

Luckily, there are private developers funding and organising other markets across the city. So the future for city markets looks good - but its 100% driven by the private sector.

Anyway we are off topic.

To counter argue against myself - the market that most resembled H2G was the one over in Newmarket beside what is now the heritage site of Teelings whiskey. That was a great spot, closed for the same reason I think.

My other favourite market was the one in Meeting House square, was in it recently and it has really gone down hill.

Ok - all fair comments. That could be like the English market in Dublin. On the credit side, Capel Street is now my favourite street in Dublin.

DCC own and always owned the Iveagh Markets, but had leased it to the owner of an appalling pub and a hotel in Temple Bar. He owns the nearby, derelict Mother Redcaps.

They could and should have terminated the jokers lease on it many years earlier but kept believing every excuse

Sorry to burst your bubble but I suspect there will be very little if anything "organic" about St Andrews Church Market. This is some property investors out to make a profit. So, it will be only established companies who will be able to afford rents. We might even see a Costa opening up in that market - that's how organic I suspect it will be, alas!

Yes, that kind of thing. But on a bigger scale.

It (Smithfield Market) will also help Capel Street develop further by bringing more footfall to and from the street.

Good times ahead for Capel St I think!

At least that looks like something different without Costa, Papa Johns or Subway getting involved.

So loads of skinny lattes, hummus and racing bikes with the deliberately "distressed look" locked outside.

Yeah, the city is screaming out for one.

No vision and no leadership in Dublin City Council. I sometimes think they go into the office, plan for a few more bollards, then just go home.

What was the last project of Dublin City Council that actually got positive feedback from Dubliners?