WETHERSPOON is to spend more than €15 million developing a new pub and 98-bedroom hotel in Dublin city centre.
The company is set to start development work in February 2018, with the pub and hotel due to open in early 2019.
Two hundred jobs will be created at the site, which is currently a row of derelict properties on Camden Street.
Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin said: “We are looking forward to developing the site into a fantastic pub and hotel.
“It will be the biggest single investment undertaken by Wetherspoon and will result in our largest hotel alongside a superb pub.
“Our pubs in the Republic of Ireland are thriving and we are confident that the pub and hotel will be a great asset to Dublin and act as a catalyst for other businesses to invest in the city.”
The pub will be set over two levels and will feature a beer garden.
A number of historical aspects of the derelict buildings will be retained and restored.
These include a circular stained glass window which was crafted by Earley & Company (church decorators, stained glass manufacturers and stone carvers)
The window on the façade of number 5 Upper Camden Street is considered to be the work of John Earley – son of the founder
Earley & Company became one of the largest and most prestigious ecclesiastical decorators in Ireland and the UK.
The studios closed in 1975 having been run by the Earley family for more than a century.