Owner of the Oliver St John Gogarty pub sees profits soar 82% in Dublin's Temple Bar

Pre-tax profits at the group that operates the Oliver St John Gogarty pub in Dublin’s Temple Bar last year soared by 82% to €3.1m.

The Martin Keane-controlled Drayton House Holdings Ltd operates the well-known Dublin 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 helped drive up group revenues by 6%, from €12.23m to €12.92m, in the 12 months to the end of last February.