Temple Bar pub group’s pre-tax profits hit €3.8m

The owners of the Oliver St John Gogarty pub in Dublin’s Temple Bar last year wrote up pre-tax profits totalling €3.8m.

The Martin Keane-controlled Drayton House Holdings Ltd operates the well-known pub named after the Dublin literary figure immortalised in James Joyce’s Ulysses, where he appeared as Buck Mulligan.

Every year, tens of thousands of tourists descend on the Oliver St John Gogarty pub and new figures for Drayton show that the pub contributed to revenues increasing by 6% from €10.79m to €11.45m at the group in the 12 months to the end of Feb 28 last.