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The Market Bar on Fade Street was named in Irish Times coverage as part of the setting around RTE's Fade Street reality TV series.
THE MARKET BAR
14A FADE STREET, & THE REAR OF 25 ST GEORGE'S STREET, THE REAR OF 29 MARKET ARCADE EXTENSION
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Revenue's renewed-liquor-licence register lists licence ref 1010890 as a Publican's Licence (7-Day Ordinary) for THE MARKET BAR at 14A FADE STREET, & THE REAR OF 25 ST GEORGE'S STREET, THE REAR OF 29 MARKET ARCADE EXTENSION in DUBLIN CITY with MERCROFT TAVERNS LIMITED as licensee [1]
The Irish Times reported in 2017 that Mercroft Taverns Ltd, operator of The Market Bar on Fade Street, pleaded guilty to a Public Health Tobacco Act charge, and the same report described the bar as having been at the centre of RTÉ's Fade Street reality TV series [2]
In 2021, a High Court judge granted an interim injunction restraining agents of George's Street Arcade from padlocking gates serving as an emergency exit for The Market Bar after an application by Mercroft Taverns Limited [3]
In 2019, The Irish Times reported that Carval withdrew a bid to put The Market Bar into examinership after a High Court deal, and that the court accepted the bar was solvent [4]
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- Revenue Commissioners · Register of Renewed Liquor Licences · 2026-05-08
- Irish Times · "Market Bar in Dublin admits smoking ban breach" · 2017-11-22
- Irish Times · "Injunction to prevent padlocking of emergency exit of Dublin bar" · 2021-11-12
- Irish Times · "Carval strikes deal with McFadden to keep Market Bar out of examinership" · 2019-03-09
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