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'Astronomical' Licence Costs Holding Back Northern Ireland, Says Wetherspoon's Chairman

Tim Martin, chairman of JD Wetherspoon, has criticised the cost of drinks licences in Northern Ireland, describing the required payment as being "astr...

Popular Capel Street Pub To Close After A Century Of Business

Popular Capel Street pub, Jack Nealon's, is to close next month after being in business for over a century. Vincent Waters, who owns the lease on the pu...

Popular Family-Run Co. Tyrone Pub Put On Market

The Smuggler's Inn bar and restaurant, located at Clady on the Co Tyrone and Co Donegal border, has been put on the market with a guide price of £295...

Electric Picnic Founder To Open Gastro Bar-Music Venue In Dublin City Centre

Restaurateur and Electric Picnic founder, John Reynolds, is to open a "quirky" live music venue at 5 Clarendon Market and which will also have a...

Lidl Refused Planning Permission To Demolish Popular Dublin Pub

Plans to demolish Tallaght's Belgard Inn and for it to be replaced with a Lidl have hit a road block after An Bord Pleanála refused Lidl Ireland Gmb...

Cork Properties Put On Market; €1.8m Refurbishment Of Clare Hotel Nears Completion

Ouvane Falls Inn, a 14 en-suite bedroom guest house with a bar and restaurant in Bantry, Co Cork, has been put up for sale with an asking price of &eu...

Wetherspoon Pub Chairman Blasts UK's 'Dinner Party' Budget

JD Wetherspoon Chairman Tim Martin (pictured) said UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond’s budget endangers the country’s pub industry...

Dublin Publicans Partner With Charity Initiative ALONE To Support Elderly

The Licensed Vintners Association (LVA), which represents Dublin publicans, has announced details of a new community initiative with ALONE, the charity tha...