Another big sale

A Main Street property fetched €3.5 million at auction recently.



The property comprised three shopfront premises on a half-acre site, owned by Seamus Byrne. It recently received planning permission for full redevelopment, including apartments and new commercial premises.

The buyer was pharmacist Adrian Dunne. There's speculation that the new owner plans to build a medical centre which incorporates a pharmacy on the streetfront part of the property.



Meanwhile, a 'Pharmacy Opening Soon' sign has appeared on the old Maloney premises just down the road, which was recently bought by the owners of Burke's Pharmacy of Naas, who currently have a pharmacy business on Hillcrest.

With Bernard Berney's pharmacy long-established just a little way up the hill from the new Dunne property, it looks like there could soon be a very competitive situation developing in that particular business.

Brian Byrne.