It can't be goodbye to Bewleys, a Grafton Street institution, can it?

On 26th of April 2020, I walked down a deserted Grafton Street (see blog post here) and took photos of shuttered shops and then wrote a blog later in the day.  I ended the blog by wondering when the stores would be open again.

Sadly it seems one of them won't be opening again - the iconic Bewley's cafe with its famous Harry Clarke stained glass

I've blogged many times about visits to Bewley's and it was a favourite pastime in recent times for my mother and I to meet and go to a lunchtime play in the little Cafe Theatre at the top of the building.

It is a sad day to hear it will close, a victim of the Covid 19 pandemic combined with massive rents, it seems.