Flanagan’s Restaurant and Bar has become something of an institution along O’Connell Street in Dublin’s north inner city. The casual Irish comfort food establishment, which can be picked out by its blue neon sign, first opened its doors back in the 1980s and has been serving customers ever since. This week, Flanagan’s became the latest hospitality business to seek help in order to stave off insolvency. Sackville Catering Limited, the company behind the restaurant, has sought to enter the Small Companies Administrative Rescue Process – better known as Scarp. The Scarp process aims to help smaller firms restructure their business…

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