Street of dreams

If the rural retail market is still struggling to get back on its feet, there are no such worries on Grafton Street in Dublin, where rents are rising by the day and vacancies are being ferociously fought

Ireland remains the darling of international property investors, who spent a record €4.58 billion in the country last year

There was a time when a retailer’s exit from its Grafton Street base would have represented just another fallen domino in the overall collapse of the Irish property market.

Widespread images ...