|
A new home for Irish Club after four-year search  LONDON’S
Irish Club has finally found a new home.
Four years after leaving its previous premises the club has bought a new
building in the Blackfriars area of the city for some £3.7million.
Officials are now preparing to apply for planning permission to convert
the building into a club.
If granted it would see a major refurbishment programme get under way.
The building boasts five floors with some 5,000 sq ft of space.
Officials are hopeful the club could be up and running by the end of the
year.
The Irish Club left its previous base in Eaton Square some four years
ago and has been looking for a suitable alternative home ever since.
In a statement club officials said: “The relaunched club will continue
to be a friendly venue providing the means of social and cultural intercourse
for Irish people and their friends.
“It will welcome into membership all those who are Irish by birth
or descent and their spouses.
“It will not only carry forward into the new century the ethos
and traditions of Eaton Square it will also research the vibrant young
Irish Diaspora in London and the Home Counties to ascertain their key
characteristics, interests and aspirations as a prelude to attracting
them into membership.
“Our chief purpose will be to re-establish in a suitably adapted
form, the stylish, friendly and extrovert organisation which was the Irish
Club in its Eaton Square years.
“It is intended to restore the emphasis that was then given to social
and cultural activities but also to provide a range of attractive facilities
and activities that will appeal especially to the younger Irish professionals
who are now so numerous in London and the South East particularly.
“Professional management will soon be put in place to ensure that
the reborn Irish Club operates efficiently and effectively.”and
the Home Counties to ascertain their key characteristics, interests and
aspirations as a prelude to attracting them into membership.
“Our chief purpose will be to re-establish in a suitably adapted
form, the stylish, friendly and extrovert organisation which was he Irish
Club in its Eaton Square years.
“It is intended to restore the emphasis that was then given to social
and cultural activities but also to provide a range of attractive facilities
and activities that will appeal especially to the younger Irish professionals
who are now so numerous in London and the South East particularly.
“Professional management will soon be put in place to ensure that
the reborn Irish Club operates efficiently and effectively.”
|
