Restaurant review: The Burren Storehouse, 'Kieran's Kitchen', Co Clare

The Burren Storehouse opened earlier this year. It is strictly a casual dining spot where the menu changes daily.

THE Irish pub trade is struggling. A DCU study reported on in this newspaper in 2014 estimated that more than 1,000 pubs had closed since 2007, and as many as 1,000 more may close by 2024.

Of course rural Ireland in general is also suffering and has seen little of the benefits of the recent upturn in the economy. So what’s to be done?