The successful construction entrepreneur Maurice Regan has bought out the investment vehicle of his long-term business partner Michael Breslin in one of Dublin’s biggest hospitality groups, the Mercantile. In a statement, Mercantile Entertainment Group confirmed that Breslin’s company EM International Investments LLC (EMI) had sold its shares in the Dublin-based bar and restaurant hospitality group to its long-term co-shareholder Regan.  The Mercantile Group has 11 venues, including some of the capital’s most popular bars Café en Seine, The George, Whelan’s, Opium, and NoLita.  It also includes the Mercantile Hotel, with its bar and restaurant, which reopened last year after a…

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