Pilot scheme to turn pubs into cinemas, book clubs and craft shops

Hub talk: Funding of €50,000 has been provided to the Vintners Federation of Ireland, which will select five pubs in Cavan, Kerry, Donegal, Clare and Cork as part of the pilot programme.

A group of five rural pubs will be given state funding to become "community hubs" under a new pilot programme.

Modelled on a similar scheme in the UK, ‘Pubs as Community Hubs’ is designed to utilise pubs during quiet trading times into digital hubs, community cinemas, book clubs, arts and crafts workshops and community meeting spaces.