The Press Up hospitality group has severed ties with two of its pubs while receivers appointed to part of the group have decided to close the three Asian restaurants in the Wagamama chain. Press Up group co-founder Paddy McKillen Jr resigned this week as director of Greenfield Ideas Ltd, the licence holder for pubs Thomas Rody Maher’s on Dublin’s Baggot Street and Ashton’s in Clonskeagh; Crawley Ltd, the operator of the restaurant Captain America’s on Grafton St; and Sanphase Ltd, the previous licence holder for Dublin’s Lucky Duck pub, which was sold earlier this year. Asked whether those businesses were…

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