IRISH MARKET RIGHTS
At the end of April 2006 All Market Rights that are unused in the last ten years stand to be extinguished.
Market Rights are a Public Right that enshrine basic civil liberties and have constitutional protection.
A town with no Market Rights has no right to hold a market. Instead your town will have to rely on the flawed and regressive Casual Trading Act 1995 and your local authority to provide you with trading facilities.
Local Authorities and Government want to get rid of Market Rights as they give too much power to the people. The Casual Trading Act 1995 offers very little protection to the traders and has often been used to cripple market trading through prohibitive bylaws.
Markets in Ireland have not prospered with the Casual Trading Act 1995, instead most traders have been denied trading opportunities. The Competition Authority carried out a report into the Casual Trading Act 1995 and found it to be completely unsatisfactory in most aspects of its implementation. Click here to view this report
It is up to you to ensure your town has the right to hold markets into the future. Act now to certify the Market Rights. By setting up a stall of any kind and offering something for sale even for five minutes on the legal day(days), you will ensure that the right is kept alive for the next ten years (see procedure).
Contact this website with as much information as you can about any market trading that occurs or has occurred in Ireland. All testimonials are of vital importance in setting up a database of market trading in Ireland and of ensuring a future for market trading in Ireland. You can contact us here. Our email address is info@irishmarketrights.org. Send us as much info as you can including photographs, letters and newspaper articles. Alternatively send documentation to Irish Market Rights, The Creamery, Toons Bridge, Macroom, Cork.
We would like to express gratitude to the International Operators, Market and Street Traders who assisted us, to date, with the handling of post.