Wetherspoons have been given the go ahead to open a new bar in Dublin

It will be the pub chain’s first hotel venture in Ireland.

Dublin City Council has granted permission to UK pub chain JD Wetherspoon to open a hotel and bar complex on Camden Street. Plans were submitted to open a 98 bar and hotel room complex on the site of the old Camden Hall Hostel earlier this year, but hit a snag due to the large number of pubs and cafés/restaurants with a license to sell alcohol already in the area. According to the Irish Times, Dublin City Council have now given the go ahead to Wetherspoons to build the complex, which, including the conversion of the old hostel and adjoining 19^th century houses, is set to cost in the region of €4 million. Approval was granted to Wetherspoons subject to 20 conditions, including a ban on amplified music which could be heard from the street, a ban on the use of projecting signs and internal changes on the adjoining houses. Wetherspoons had also planned to open another pub on Lower Abbey Street after acquiring two adjoining buildings in early 2015, the former Permanent TSB bank and a former Baptist chapel alongside it. They are likely to have to wait until next year until learning whether they can go ahead with plans to do so, however, after Dublin City Council expressed reservations about alterations the pub chain planned on making to buildings that are nearly 200 years old.