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A former Cork city bar operated by the Rebel Bar Group has changed hands, and is due to re-open by Easter. Mulligans, on Parnell Place, has been acquired by a small consortium headed up by Liam Barry, who has owned the Bodhrán on Oliver Plunkett Street for more than 10 years, and who’s been in the bar business in Cork and Mallow for almost 20 years.

He’d created Campbell Catering and saved Bewleys by the time he was 50. Then Patrick Campbell left it all to fulfill his life’s ambition asan artist, writes Alan O’Riordan

A former DJ has invented a GPS tracking device that is giving huge comfort to carers of vulnerable people, says Claire Droney.

The Irish Centre for Business Excellence (ICBE) have launched 300 work placements for professionals eager to rejoin the workforce.

EIGHT Irish food companies are among those first in line for the overall prizes in Britain’s foremost food competition, the 2010 Great Taste Awards.

CAMPBELL Bewley Group recorded an increase in pre-tax profits of $1.6m (€1.2m) from $1.3m for the year the end of September 2007.

A former Bewleys Hotel chef who made hoax calls stating there were bombs in the hotel carpark and kitchen has been given a suspended sentence by Judge Frank O’Donnell at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Halcon Genelardais has been left at the head of the weights for the bet365 Gold Cup at Sandown on April 26.

PAUL Nicholls is doing his best to secure the services of Ruby Walsh for Turko, whom he fancies “quite strongly” for the John Smith’s Grand National on Saturday.

It has been announced this morning that 500 new jobs are to be created in an expansion of the Café Bar Deli restaurant chain in a joint venture with O’Briens Sandwich Bars.

Consumer correspondent Paul Kelly charts the company’s road to success

INDEPENDENT Irish hotel group Moran Hotels has agreed terms to buy the Bewleys Hotel chain for an undisclosed sum.

WILLIE MULLINS could saddle as many as five runners in the John Smith’s Grand National on Saturday after 68 horses stood their ground at the five-day confirmation stage yesterday.

Hundreds of thousands of people downed a cup of coffee today as the vital annual fund raiser for hospice services got under way.

Hundreds of thousands of people downed a cup of coffee today as the vital annual fund raiser for hospice services got under way.

The financial future of the Irish Wolfhounds appears to be secure after Rugby League Ireland signed a new sponsorship deal.

One of Bewleys much-loved cafes reopened on Dublin’s Grafton Street today after a six-month revamp.

FOOD group Bewleys has sold off its 55% stake in Campbell Catering Services to its US joint venture partner.

Macs Joy (7-1) put up a hugely impressive performance to claim the Grade One Bewleys Hotels December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown today.

MICHAEL BOWE hopes that Solerina has retained her form ahead of a mouth-watering rematch with Hardy Eustace in the Bewleys Hotels Christmas Hurdle at Leopardstown today.

Shoppers in Dublin city centre are complaining that there are very few places to sit down and enjoy a cup of tea since the closure of Bewleys' cafes.

CHAMPION chaser Flagship Uberalles will be out again early in 2005 despite managing only fifth in the O’Connell Warehousing Hilly Way Chase at Cork on Sunday.

Connections of Solerina hinted strongly today that the front-running Irish mare would take her chance in the Smurfit Champion Hurdle if the word “soft” appeared in the going description.

Dublin City Council has passed a motion outlining a range of measures designed to save the Bewley's Cafés buildings on Grafton Street and Westmoreland Street.

Dublin City Council is due to debate a motion tonight aimed at changing the planning laws to protect business premises like Bewleys cafes.

The group campaigning to save Bewleys cafes has called on the Government to establish a National Trust to protect historic landmarks.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tonight ruled out Government intervention to save Bewley’s flagship Dublin cafes, which closed today.

DUBLINERS turned out yesterday to campaign against the closure of the landmark Bewleys café on Grafton Street.

The demise of Bewley’s oriental cafés in central Dublin is “like part of Dublin dying”, their emotional owner said today.

The Bewleys cafés at Grafton St and Westmoreland St in Dublin are to close at the end of the month, with the probable loss of 234 jobs.

GENERAL MONTCALM gets the nap to land the Garryrichard Stud Tetratema Cup Hunters ’Chase on a seven-race programme confined to point-to-pointers at Gowran Park this afternoon.

UP to 200 of the 700 administrative workers employed by Diageo at their Guinness and United Distillers operations in Ireland may be made redundant in the coming days.

FROTHY or plain, black or white, as thousands of people raised their cups of coffee yesterday morning, they were also raising the fortunes of the Irish Hospice Movement to the tune of €1.3 million.