Just a reminder that Dublin is the only capital in Europe without indoor food market and this gorgeous building is still in ruin and without use.

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1. It’s crazy how much they’ve let it go.

2. It should be turned into an injecting centre called IV Market

3. But hear me out, what if we sell it to a vulture fund so they can sit on it until the land is valuable enough to turn it into a hotel? Now that’s some stonks thinking.

4. How did that washing machine get there?

5. Where’s the one in Luxembourg City?

6. It’s such a shame what happened this place, and classic Dublin property shuffling: it was bought by a hotelier in 1997 who sat on it until it was repossessed by DCC in 2018 who didn’t have the budget to restore it, then [repossessed again by the Guinness family in 2020](https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2020/1208/1183071-iveagh-market/) because a condition of their original sale was that it was to be maintained as a functioning market.

   [It’s currently tied up in a legal battle.](https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2022/11/19/the-iveagh-markets-can-a-former-dublin-glory-be-saved/)

7. Further proof that Cork is the real capital, we have English Market, Marina Market, and Black Market.

8. The washing machine stays. That’s the reason I fell in love with the place.