Armagh, Transfer of Licence

Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 (Article 22, Schedule 5, paras. 1&2) Notice of Application for the Transfer of a Licence Petty Sessions District of Newry and Mourne South Eastern County Court Division

TAKE NOTICE that I, Olive McKeever, of 36 Cashel Road, Silverbridge, intend at the Magistrates' Court sitting at Newry Courthouse, 23 New Street, Newry, BT35 6JD on the 29th September 2025 at 10.30 am to apply for the transfer to me of a licence at present held by Brendan Joseph Vallely (deceased), of 202 Coolmillish Road, Cashel, Armagh, for the premises at 4 Forkhill Road, Mullaghbawn, being premises of the following kind according to the Licensing (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, namely premises specified in Article:-



5(1)(a) premises in which the business carried on under the licence is the business of selling Intoxicating Liquor by retail for consumption either in or off the premises.



A Protection Order authorising the Applicant to carry on the business under the licence was granted on the 2nd day of April 2025 by the Magistrates' Court sitting at Newry for the period of 6 months from the date of the Order.



The Applicant is the owner of the business carried on under the licence.



The owner of the premises is the estate of Brendan Joseph Vallely.



The licence will be deposited with the Clerk of Petty Sessions before or at the hearing of the Application.



AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that any person owning or residing or carrying on business in premises in the vicinity of the premises for which the transfer of the licence is sought who intends to object to the Transfer of the licence must in accordance with paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to the Order serve notice of his intention to object upon the Applicant and the Clerk of Petty Sessions not less than one week before the time of the Court sitting at which the application is to be made briefly stating the grounds of objection as specified in Article 22(6) of the said Order, those being: -



(i) That the statutory procedure has not been complied with;

(ii) That the applicant is not a fit person to hold a licence; and or,

That the business carried on in the premises under the licence has been discontinued.



Dated this 4th day of September 2025

Signed: Tara Walsh Solicitors.

Tara Walsh Solicitors Solicitors for the Applicant 5/6 Sandy Street Newry, BT34 1EN

TO:

The Clerk of Petty Sessions for the above-named Petty Sessions District, Newry Courthouse, 23 New Street, Newry, BT35 6AD



Copy to: (i)

Sub-Divisional Commander at Police Service of Northern Ireland, Ardmore Police Station, 3 Belfast Road, Newry, BT34 1EF



(ii) Newry, Mourne and Down District Council, Unit 19 Greenbank Industrial Estate, Rampart Road, Newry, BT34 2QU