A Dublin pub which has gone into receivership is still trading although it has a hole in its roof and is using an illegal electricity supply, the High Court was told yesterday.
“The Madison”, Lower Rathmines Road, was put into receivership last April on the application of Anglo Irish Bank.
It was later rented out on a short term lease to James Walsh, Mountainview Drive, Churchtown, and Sylvester Gardiner, Cullenswood Gardens, Ranelagh, and is now trading “intermittently”, the court heard.
Yesterday, the receiver, Martin Ferris, applied to Mr Justice Peter Kelly for an order permitting him serve injunction proceedings at short notice aimed at preventing the two men continuing to trade in the bar. The matter was made returnable to Monday.
James Doherty, for Mr Ferris, said the receiver was particularly concerned because the electricity supply had been cut off last March but had since been unlawfully reconnected.
There was also a hole in the roof and, after seeing photos of the premises, the judge remarked it was “not quite the Pantheon” he had initially thought it was.
Mr Ferris was also concerned about the danger being caused by the fire exits being blocked, counsel said.