The Hoxton / Izakaya noise dispute rumbles further into the public arena, ahead of a planning protest and public meeting this evening.
As the situation becomes more public, both nightclub and hotel operators are putting out statements after the Hoxton’s High Court injunction last week.
Yamamori have responded today to the Hoxton’s hotel operator Trinity Hospitality who have put out multiple statements over the last five days culminating in this one-pager FAQ style statement website – https://hotelupdate.carrd.co – covering everything they said to date.
Yamamori’s statement today, Tuesday February 17th refutes Trinity Capital’s assertions around the expert meetings, prior engagements during the build and it says Hoxton’s operators did not share requested information about the sound attenuation measures that were installed.
It reads:
Following commentary over the weekend and yesterday, we wish to state the following: Yamamori utterly rejects the comments of Trinity Hospitality Ltd as reported in The Journal.ie on the [13/2/2026] and shared elsewhere.
The previous operators of the Central Hotel deployed the area over our premises as a function room. The current owners chose to convert this area into bedrooms despite our concerns which were known to them.
During the construction phase we commissioned an expert report (2023) to measure sound levels, and this was provided to the Company to assist them in installing necessary sound attenuation measures. It should be noted that the sound levels recorded are considerably lower than typical late-night venues and in addition we have since installed a sound limiter [17/12/25] to ensure these levels are not exceeded.
When the Company raised the matter in late November 2025, we immediately agreed to meet to discuss the issue and requested information about the sound attenuation measures that were installed. Initially the Company agreed to provide this information however we only received the requested information this morning [17/2/26].
It is the opinion of our expert that this information was and still is essential to progress matters. Rather than provide this information in a timely manner the Company sought an injunction. It chose not to provide the requested information which would have facilitated a meeting between the respective experts.
It is extremely difficult to accept the claims by the Company that it is not seeking to curtail cultural or nightlife activity, and that it would like to see us thrive. Its actions are inconsistent with these sentiments. It is also hard to accept the Company’s claim that it had no choice but to seek the injunction, it chose not to provide the requested information which would have facilitated a meeting between the respective experts immediately.
The Company’s claim that we have not engaged and have acted unreasonably is incorrect and should not have been made. The agreed testing on 14/15th of February 2026 was of limited use save that it highlighted several issues that the Company will have to clarify. We are now analysing the technical data that we had originally asked for in November last year.
-Yamamori Management team
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
