MUSIC lover and property investor Paddy McKillen has had plans for a new night club on Harcourt Street in Dublin city centre rejected by Dublin City Council.

McKillen, who is pals with U2’s Bono, had been trying to convert the basement and part of the car park at the building at 32/34 Harcourt Street into a club, but the local authority decided there was already “several other similar uses in close proximity” and giving the go-ahead would result in “over-concentration of this use in this location”.

McKillens club would have faced stiff competition from Cathal Jacksons Copper Face Jacks, which had accumulated profits of €38.1 million at the end of January 2010 and the Russell Court Hotel, whose Diceys beer garden is a favourite of office workers in the area. McKillen had made the application through May Property Holdings, one of the 15 companies through which he had challenged the right of Nama to take on his property loans.