Businesses that go boom in the bust

THE owner of a string of bars and a nightclub in Cork City that have boomed through the recession puts his success down to customer engagement.

Despite Ernest Cantillon’s success in growing his empire from a single pub on the eve of the recession to two pubs, a nightclub, and a pancake house, he says it wasn’t all plain sailing.

“I bought Sober Lane in 2006, I bought it right at the peak of the boom,” said Mr Cantillon.