September opening for Wetherspoon’s Cork pub

UK pub chain JD Wetherspoon will have its first Irish pub outside Dublin open by the start of September, in Cork city centre.

The hugely popular chain of pubs will open The Linen Weaver on the premises of the old Newport Café on Paul Street on September 1 — its first outside Dublin and fifth in the Republic.

Its opening will follow that of the Three Tun Tavern in Blackrock and the Forty Foot in Dun Laoghaire which are already open.