‘Superpub’ sells for record €8.1m

THE biggest sum ever paid for an Irish pub, €8.1 million, changed hands at an auction in Dublin yesterday when The Playwright Inn in Blackrock came under the hammer.

The premises, described as a ‘superpub’ was purchased by the Moran group in 1994 for just over £1 million.

Last night, Pat Power, a financial executive with the Moran hotel group, said everybody in the company was “over the moon” with the result of yesterday’s auction.