New Shop Maynooth

They either own their buildings outright (Romayos in Greenfield) or can afford the huge rent (Romayos Main Street is 52k/year, Supermacs 48k/year). Independents can't.

Yeahburgr is actually a chain too, just a lot smaller than either of those; and the claim on the town facebook pages is that it was a huge rent hike.

No statutory rent caps, but increases windows and even sometimes the amount are set out in the lease in advance for a period of usually 5 or 10 years.

If you are concerned with maintaining book value of a property, the notional rent is often more important than the current rent; hence they get left empty. The world of finance is perverse.

If it closed due to a rent hike as is being claimed by various people who claim to know, there's nothing that can be done by anyone other than the landlord; unless basically the entire world decides to change how to value commercial property.

Councillors can look at business rates, but they are a much smaller element of total costs. Government TDs have some level of influence on lots of other business costs, but there is a VAT cut for hospitality coming in three weeks as it is.

That building has been in the same family for generations. Cant understand why they wld increase the rent and let it sit vacant. Its just plain greed.

pity, quite liked yeah burger, definitely one of the better places in maynooth, would have gotten it more often but it closed early enough, around 9 i think.

i'd say smoking goat would have done great there if they hadn't already the place beside tesco.

always surprised pizza dog has survived this long, food is muck & never seems that busy (apart from the roost crowd after hours).