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Full coverage: pub

McKillen Jr fights to hold onto control of Grafter

Paddy McKillen Jr sued the receivers appointed to the Star Bar on Baggot Street on Thursday. Now he is suing them in relation to three more companies related to serviced office business Grafter.

Tom Lyons
11th Jul, 2025 - 3 min read

A Donegal businessman is acquiring Ashton’s in Clonskeagh as Press Up disposals continue

Businessman Paddy Doherty quietly made a fortune founding the Electro Automation Group. In April he bought his first gastropub in suburban Dublin, and now he is buying a second.

Tom Lyons
18th Jul, 2024 - 2 min read

Dance halls, Broadway and the Queen Mary: The making of John Mahon

New York publican John Mahon outbid Conor McGregor for a landmark pub on Dublin's quays as part of a generational expansion plan. The Longford native's story is one of emigration, luck and hard graft.

Rosanna Cooney
26th Aug, 2022 - 6 min read
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