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STAFF OF MUNCHIES café in Dublin city centre have been locked out by their landlord following a rent dispute.
Arriving at the South William Street café on Saturday morning, staff found that the locks had been changed during the night without any prior contact. Security are now inside the café and entry hasn’t been granted to recover personal belongings or to contact clients.
The ten staff employed by the café, one of seven in the Munchies chain, are now unsure of their future.
A reduced rate of rent had been paid on the 35 year lease for a number of months with no objection from the landlord, Munchies manager Elaine O’Hora told TheJournal.ie.
She welcomed the support they have received, saying that they have been sent many texts and emails from customers upset by the closure of 25-year-old cafe.
(Image Credit: Chloe Harris)
The lease contains the controversial upward only rent review (UORR) clause like many other properties in the city centre. This means that the rent paid on the property can only rise or remain level, but never fall.
Dublin Chamber of Commerce says that many tenants are having issues paying their rent, with UORR clauses frequently playing a part, notable in the high-profile examples of Bewley’s and HMV.
They encourage that tenants and landlords engage in discussions if there is a problem as it will often result in a “win-win situation” for both parties.
A recent High Court ruling involving Bewley’s café on Grafton Street stated that their rent must fall to match current market conditions.
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You can access them alright so long as there is a bit of wifi in heaven. I’m sure there is.
And plenty of clouds for your storage ;-)
I’ve my gmail death emails written a few months now to a couple of friends. One person gets a link to a file I have with all my usernames/passwords to all important accounts. Was very weird writing them.
How will the email be sent if you’re dead? Have you arranged for someone to do that?
I’m going to leave all my usernames and passwords with my partner to do as he pleases with them. He knows them all anyway.
If your gmail account is inactive for more than 3 months it will auto send the email
That’s creepy but handy. How do you do it?
Its explained in this article under the Google section, click on inactive account manager.
Who cares your dead
Your family and next of kin will probably care.
Was weird as shit seeing a close friend of mine constantly in my friends list once she has passed away a few years ago. Her sister eventually deleted her account completely.
You get a life
The best answer is to have your user names/passwords in a sealed envelope with a trusted family member member/friend. Of course they change but keeping these documents updated is worth it. The easiest way for me to contact long-distance people after my mother died was through her email account, and about a month after her death I deactivated it. I was also able to access all of her online accounts, bills, and credit cards in order to close everything out.
Of course, doing all that after she died meant that I had full access before she died. But she trusted me. And I trusted her. It helped that I kept copies of my will, backups of all my photos, copies of passports and email addresses and passwords stored in a sealed envelope in a file cabinet at her house. She had full access to my life as well, and never took advantage of that information.
Mutual trust is needed to make this word. But after my mother died suddenly, this trust certainly helped to close her estate in a timely and respectful manner. Important
As an aside, “Arrange My World” is an Irish software company that deals in keeping/protecting/accessing passwords, important documents, etc. and is a great product that can help organise our digital lives.
I dunno I still keep my late fathers number in my phone – tried ringing it once and I think it may belong to someone else, if they rang me back I’d get a quare fright
Ditto. I think I’d be 6 feet under with him if someone with his number called me.
Awh bless
We all died many years ago many times.. What we are feeling now is just an illusion. Get over it and move on to the next digital wonderland and don’t dwell in the past or the future.
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