'We know that it is a viable business': Cork residents plan to buy last pub in village

The village has a population of fewer than 100 people and the parish has approximately 400

Fleming's Tavern, also known as Art O’Connor’s, and its adjoining four-bed house are up for sale for €300,000. File picture

A small village in North Cork has set about battling social isolation among its residents by trying to buy and reopen the last pub in the area.

Locals in the tiny village of Cullen are to form a fundraising committee to purchase the former Fleming’s Tavern, which closed its doors last September.