Owner Ollie Cruise announced the news with “an extremely heavy heart”, that the café is closing its doors for good on Saturday.
“It’s with an extremely heavy heart that we are saying goodbye,” they said.
“We have truly loved every single second of it – from the day we opened through to the many iterations and changes we’ve gone through, each one bringing different, wonderful people into our lives.
“Community is an overused term, but Network became that for many, and for us, too.
“We won’t get into the boring details of why the business is no more, but simply remember us for what we were.
“We couldn’t list all the people to thank – there are simply too many. Sincerely, we appreciate everyone who became a part of our little community.
“Our last day will be this Saturday. Please come in and say goodbye. We set out to open a café, and we built so much more than that.
“Thank you, everyone. Ollie and Team Network x,” they added.
The Restaurants Association of Ireland estimates that two restaurants or other food-led businesses are closing each day, with almost 580 restaurants, cafés, and other food businesses having closed their doors in less than a year.
It blamed the rise in the VAT rate from 9pc to 13.5pc, which has left food-led hospitality businesses facing a “decision to either erode their competitiveness or take a 4.5pc hit to the bottom line” at a time when energy and food costs have already “exploded”.
Minister for Public Expenditure, Paschal Donohoe, previously denied that the number of closures is an example of the death of the city centre.
“When I’m out in Dublin at night, when I’m spending time here in the city centre, a city centre that I live reasonably near, that I spend a lot of time in, I see the challenges that are there,” he said.
“But I see a vibrancy, and I see a movement and a vitality in our city. That certainly does not speak to death.”
However, the minister acknowledged there were challenges for businesses and that while the government was trying to support them, there was more to do.
