When lodging the plans earlier this year, Mr Crosbie said that the 200-seater ‘Baby Vicar’ entertainment venue for Dublin’s docklands “will bring light and life to a dark place”.

The 35-bedroom hotel and ‘Baby Vicar’ venue will be housed in a two storey glass box

Currently, the consortium is progressing with Phase one of the redevelopment of the Irish Glass Bottle site with 894 units now under construction.

In a comprehensive refusal, the City Council has stated that the proposed development constitutes an over-bearing, excessive and out of scale development.

It is now almost four years since U2 firm, MHEC Ltd and businessman, Paddy McKillen Snr’s company, Golden Brook Ltd secured planning permission in January 2019 for the U2 visitor centre and exhibition space at Hanover Quay.