Traveller objections put paid to pub plan

A PROPOSAL to open a pub for Travellers has been abandoned after the Traveller Visibility Group deemed it discriminatory.

Tom Scriven, head of the Rebel Bar Group, explored the idea of opening a “Traveller-friendly” pub in the Cork city area but, while researching the project, he was told the TVG opposed the move as it would “widen the divide between Travellers and the settled community”.

Scriven runs several pubs in Cork city and county, including the successful ‘gay-friendly’ Instinct bar off St Patrick Street and the Beer Garden in Turner’s Cross which has a policy of serving alcohol at low prices.