{"id":139483,"date":"2025-11-14T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139483\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:24:09","slug":"new-lease-of-life-for-landmark-pub-building-in-limerick-city-centre-as-shop-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/139483\/","title":{"rendered":"New lease of life for landmark pub building in Limerick city centre as shop opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AN AFGHAN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/section\/233\/business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">businessman<\/a> has opened a new shop in a former landmark pub in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p>Zubir Koohestani has opened the outlet, named Ariana, after the ancient name for the Afghan region, at the old Windmill Pub in Henry Street.<\/p>\n<p>In doing so, he has created six new jobs.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/sponsored-content\/1942333\/be-an-angel-this-christmas-and-support-the-old-quarter-angel-tree-appeal-in-aid-of-adapt-house.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Be an angel this Christmas and support The Old Quarter Angel Tree appeal in aid of Adapt House<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is giving a new lease of life to the street. We have a range of new items, a little snack bar. We specialise in fresh meat, we have a deli where we bake bread. We sell a range of rices, spices and plain things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added there has been good feedback from the community.<\/p>\n<p>In a nod to the past use of the building, an image of a Windmill has been placed on the signage, which depicts the propellers in action.<\/p>\n<p>The Windmill Pub has been open on-and-off in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>After closing in 2019, it re-opened for time in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>It then closed again, before re-opening as a shisha bar, before the shutters fell on that enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>The Windmill had been a fixture in Henry Street for decades.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AN AFGHAN businessman has opened a new shop in a former landmark pub in the city centre. Zubir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2177,42,1396,44,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-139483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-county-limerick","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-limerick","11":"tag-limerick-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}