Portfolio of pubs reflects McCabe’s eye for detail

An article published in this newspaper in 2007 outlined how Benny McCabe was “no fastidious accountant, with his eye fixed firmly on the bottom line. For McCabe, pubs are a way of life.”

After building up a portfolio of the city’s most popular establishments, though, it is hardly surprising that arguably Cork’s most successful publican is so vociferously fighting to stop IBRC from selling his companies’ loans to Nama.

As was outlined on his behalf in court yesterday, his is the largest pub group outside Dublin employing over 255 people with a turnover of €12m annually.