A pint of plain’s your only man — and now you can pay for it with online currency bitcoin.

Louis and Helen Fitzgerald gave themselves a four-fold pay increase last year to €2.28m as pre-tax profits flowed once again at their Dublin-based pub and hotel group.

FAMED by a certain generation of Dubliners as one of the city’s great live music venues, a new version of the Baggot Inn opened to a different fanfare last night.

THE Baggot Inn, one of the country’s most famous music venues, is to reopen next month, having been closed for seven years.