Pub reoccupied by former owners

A public house which had been in the possession of bank-appointed receivers has been reoccupied and reopened by its former owners.

Fallon’s Public House in Newtowncashel, Co Longford, had been closed since April after the former owners, Joseph and Mary Fallon, left when the joint receivers obtained an order for possession of the property.

Yesterday at the High Court, lawyers for the joint receivers, Kieran Wallace and Andrew O’Leary, said the Fallons have forcibly and unlawfully taken up possession of the property.