Irish bar in Scots city claims ‘discrimination’ after 75 noise complaints in two years

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The operators of an award winning Irish pub in Glasgow have claimed they are being discriminated against after being hit with repeated noise complaints.

Between March 2020 and February 2022, Connolly’s Bar has received 75 objections from the same ten complainers. Council officers have attended the premises and met with residents on a number of occasions over the past two years to find amplified noise coming from the premises.

But Police Scotland has removed the bar from their “monitored premises list” following 64 successful inspections during the same time period, Glasgow Live reports.

While tenants in the neighbouring properties and upstairs flats say the situation is having a negative impact on their health and well-being, the owner of Connolly’s, Lindsay McIntyre insists residents have failed to meet her halfway to address these concerns.Ms McIntyre claims she needs to be granted access to these properties to see where the noise is coming from before she can put measures in place to address the problem.And she said in a report to the licensing officer that there appeared to be a discriminatory aspect to these complaints.The issue was brought before the licensing board on Friday afternoon.Connolly’s legal representative, Archie McIver, said: “The building has been a licensed premise since 1994 and became Connolly’s bar in 2019.“Connolly’s was awarded the Best Irish Bar in Scotland title in 2019, 2020 and 2022.“This was originally a commercial building until the upstairs flats were put in.