'We don’t know what summer will be like': hospitality businesses face uncertain future

Tourist towns like Killarney face an uncertain season, writes Cáit Caden

Wild Cafe, which was previously the Underground Restaurant, is among the recent wave of closures to hit Killarney. Garrets restaurant in the town closed at the start of January due to the 'unprecedented shortage of qualified chefs', while Celtic Donuts is also among the other businesses that have recently been shuttered. Picture: Don MacMonagle

K-Town, a Killarney-based eatery co-owned by Kerry footballer Kieran O'Leary, will soon shut its doors.

No jobs are set to be affected by the latest closure and Mr O'Leary is in talks to open a new venue in the town while also significantly investing in his other business, a pub a short distance from K-Town called Corkerys.