{"id":549742,"date":"2026-07-14T19:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549742\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T19:43:12","slug":"salthill-promenade-shop-says-competing-kiosk-nearby-is-hitting-frozen-fruit-tub-sales-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/549742\/","title":{"rendered":"Salthill promenade shop says competing kiosk nearby is hitting frozen fruit tub sales \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The operator of a shop on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/galway\/\">Galway<\/a>\u2019s Salthill promenade is seeking a High Court injunction preventing the sale of tubs of frozen fruit from a kiosk just 350 metres away. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Blackrock Cottage Development Ltd operates a purpose-built shop at the end of the promenade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">It says it has an exclusive agreement with Alainn Superfoods to supply it with frozen fruit-based edibles in tubs within the area of Salthill and Knocknacarra, or the \u201cterritory\u201d as it is referred to in the agreement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In an affidavit, Blackrock director Brian McHugh said that on August 14th, 2023, Alainn entered an agreement to supply the tubs exclusively to Blackrock in the \u201cterritory\u201d for a five-year period. Blackrock paid Alainn an initial fee of \u20ac24,000, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On May 15th last, he said that \u201cin blatant breach\u201d of the agreement, the defendant began selling the tubs from a premises known as \u201cThe Kiosk\u201d just 350 metres from the Blackrock shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">A cease-and-desist letter was sent by Blackrock\u2019s solicitors but there was no response, McHugh said. The sale of the goods continued unabated, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He  said the sale of the goods from the kiosk, which is \u201cmore prominently positioned\u201d than the Blackrock shop, has severely impacted on the shop\u2019s sales. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">As a result, Patrick M Keane, solicitor for Blackrock, applied on Tuesday on a one-side only represented basis for an injunction to compel the defendant to perform its obligations under the agreement or alternatively to restrain it from breach of its terms. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Judge Brian Cregan said he would grant short service of the papers on the defendant, which has registered offices in Gort, Co Galway, and the case could return on Thursday. He said he would be minded to grant an injunction unless there was an argument against it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The operator of a shop on Galway\u2019s Salthill promenade is seeking a High Court injunction preventing the sale&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4500,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-549742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-galway","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549742","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=549742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}