{"id":401064,"date":"2026-04-16T05:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401064\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T05:25:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:25:21","slug":"judge-finds-in-favour-of-kilkenny-businessman-seeking-unpaid-rent-from-irish-fast-food-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/401064\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge finds in favour of Kilkenny businessman seeking unpaid rent from Irish fast-food chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge has found in favour of a local businessman seeking unpaid rent from an Irish fast-food chain.<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Times reports the case involved \u20ac124,502, plus interest, for a premises on High Street, Kilkenny owned by Richard Duggan which was leased by SuperMacs.<\/p>\n<p>Following a three-day hearing at the High Court, Judge Se\u00e1n Gillane called the conduct of company owner Pat McDonagh \u201cless than satisfactory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/business\/2026\/04\/15\/high-court-judge-critical-of-supermacs-owner-in-case-involving-unpaid-rent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colm Keena\u2019s piece in full via Irishtimes.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A judge has found in favour of a local businessman seeking unpaid rent from an Irish fast-food chain.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,12970,61,60,12969,12968,176976,21023],"class_list":{"0":"post-401064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-high-street","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-kilkenny","13":"tag-kilkenny-city","14":"tag-richard-duggan","15":"tag-supermacs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401064","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=401064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}