{"id":157935,"date":"2025-11-02T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157935\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T00:30:19","slug":"dismayed-mayor-seeks-emergency-meeting-after-local-brewery-announces-planned-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/157935\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Dismayed&#8217; Mayor seeks emergency meeting after local brewery announces planned closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.live95fm.ie\/news\/live95-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All Live95 News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/67d1c8fb7022b.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Live 95 Picture library <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            The Mayor responded following news that Crew Brew is to close in December\n        <\/p>\n<p>Mayor of Limerick John Moran this afternoon expressed his dismay at the plan by a city centre pub and microbrewery to close, saying the removal without notice or consultation by the Council of a covered \u2018parklet\u2019 allowing customers to gather outside the Thomas Street \u201cshould never have happened\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Crew Brew, which opened in 2020, said it plans to close on Christmas Eve, saying rising costs and squeezed customers were the behind the decision, but added on Instagram that \u201cthe removal of the parklet without notice and without a succession plan was the final blow to the business&#8217;s viability and to my mental capacity to fight on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Moran paid tribute to the business, saying that in a short time it had become a beloved venue.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed that Council officials had indeed removed the parklet, and did so without consulting anyone &#8212; including him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should never have happened, I\u2019m very unhappy about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>And he added: \u201cIt\u2019s not good enough. Earlier this month we had robust discussions internally about how the parklets came to be removed without discussion, and I\u2019m hopeful there won\u2019t be a recurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemoving the parklets is inconsistent with my vision for Limerick. I warned a fortnight ago that, if not done carefully and replaced by something better, there could be serious economic consequences. Today\u2019s announcement by Crew Brew strengthens my view,\u201d Moran said.<\/p>\n<p>On 17 October, the Mayor wrote to Cllr Peter Doyle, the Chair of the economic Special Policy Group, who also was not consulted, asking for an urgent review of the matter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Moran noted that Crew Brew said it did not plan to close until Christmas Eve, almost two months from now: \u201cThis gives me hope. I am ready to facilitate an urgent meeting between Council officials across several directorates and all the impacted businesses in the area, including Crew Brew, to see if a solution can be found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=49bb71e2-4823-448e-b0e8-311158962de3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f76f434.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All Live95 News Live 95 Picture library The Mayor responded following news that Crew Brew is to close&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,3006,3009,3005,3008,3007,3010],"class_list":{"0":"post-157935","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-limerick-radio","13":"tag-limerick-today","14":"tag-limericks-live95fm","15":"tag-live-95","16":"tag-live95fm","17":"tag-live95fm-homepage"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115477284575143623","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}