{"id":56360,"date":"2026-07-10T14:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/antrim-arms-hotel-department-not-consulted-before-listed-derelict-hotel-demolished\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T14:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T14:51:13","slug":"antrim-arms-hotel-department-not-consulted-before-listed-derelict-hotel-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/antrim-arms-hotel-department-not-consulted-before-listed-derelict-hotel-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Antrim Arms Hotel: Department not consulted before listed derelict hotel demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ciaran Dallat, from nearby Bella Jo Interiors, said it was &#8220;quite shocking&#8221; to see the rubble on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dallat said it was &#8220;sad to see a historic building go&#8221;, but added that it had &#8220;really become an eye-sore&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking on Thursday, Sinn F\u00e9in councillor Cara McShane believes there may be questions over what had been agreed regarding the demolition work and what has been carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There had been an understanding that there would be significant demolition of this building behind us, but what we can see this morning is that it has been entirely demolished, and that is of great sadness to many in the community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alliance MLA Sian Mulholland said it was &#8220;heartbreaking to see an iconic piece of Ballycastle&#8217;s built heritage reduced to a pile of rubble&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My party colleagues have been liaising with council officers to assess what has happened&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cq51xn2883jo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ciaran Dallat, from nearby Bella Jo Interiors, said it was &#8220;quite shocking&#8221; to see the rubble on Thursday morning. Dallat said it was &#8220;sad to see a historic building go&#8221;, but added that it had &#8220;really become an eye-sore&#8221;. Speaking on Thursday, Sinn F\u00e9in councillor Cara McShane believes there may be questions over what had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1247,4464,15920,8412,5893,15921,2067,12230],"class_list":["post-56360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-antrim","tag-arms","tag-consulted","tag-demolished","tag-department","tag-derelict","tag-hotel","tag-listed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56362,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56360\/revisions\/56362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}