Centuries-old Cork bar to reopen doors after 'toughest six months'

Brian and Louise Kenny of the Boothouse Bar, which dates back to at least 1773, are getting ready for reopening. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

The family owners of one of the oldest bars in the country have been on tenterhooks in recent weeks, wondering if they were looking at their last call.

But, instead, the Boothouse Bar at Upper Glanmire in Cork is ready and raring to go to make up for six months of lost time.