A High Court rejects a legal challenge to the plans, which would see a tap room installed in Lidl's Dundonald store.

Residents of Dundonald, near Belfast, will soon be able to pop to Lidl for a pint after a High Court in Northern Ireland approved plans for a pub at the supermarket.

A legal win has cleared the way for Lidl to open its first pub in the North inside one of its stores after the High Court rejected a challenge to the proposal.

The off licence operator said Lidl failed to demonstrate there weren’t already shops or pubs in the area that were already selling alcohol, something that Lidl needed to do so i

Well, this soon may be a reality - as Lidl in Northern Ireland has succeeded in its efforts to get a pub license in its new store in County Down. The retail giant won a legal challenge to operate a bar within its store in Dundonald despite several objections from local off-licences.

Supermarket chain Lidl has won a High Court battle over plans to open its first-ever pub in Northern Ireland. A judge dismissed an appeal against the German retailer being granted a provisional licence for operating a bar within its store in Dundonald, just outside Belfast.

A legal win has cleared the way for discount supermarket Lidl to open its first pub inside one of its stores after the High Court rejected a challenge to the proposal.

Lidl has been granted permission to open its first-ever pub in Northern Ireland. The German supermarket will be allowed to build a bar in Dundonald, Northern Ireland, the High Court ruled today. Mr Justice Colton dismissed an appeal by another trader on Wednesday and said he saw "no good reason” to block the project.

The supermarket chain has been granted approval by a High Court to open its first ever UK pub near Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Lidl is opening a pub in one of its supermarkets in the UK. The High Court has granted the supermarket permission to go ahead with the plans to open the pub in its Dundonald store in County Down near Belfast.