Gina Murphy is getting her restaurant Hugo’s ready for its first day of trade of the new year. There are chairs turned upside down on tables, vacuums are running in the background, and last-minute jobs are being wrapped up before diners enter the Merrion Row stalwart. Murphy opened Hugo’s in 2007, and since then, she has navigated the long-standing eatery through an array of economic storms from the great financial crash through to the pandemic – none of which have managed to diminish her love of hospitality. “I absolutely adore what I do. I’ve never done anything else, I was…

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