Bar scores a high price

MULTI-MILLION euro pub sales are still on the cards despite the economic downturn.

The Queens pub complex in Dalkey sold after auction last week, making close to €7 million though not to Eddie Irvine, as speculated. New monarch at the Queens is Gerry Farrell, who owns Edenmore in Raheny and other bars in Scotland. His partner in the Queens in Tom Mulcahy, a former AIB chief executive and Aer Lingus chairman.

And, in Cork, the Rob Roy bar in Cook Street has new owners, who paid an unconfirmed €2.5 million for the city centre pub, leaving the way open for vendor Finbarr Kearney to make a move to a much larger Cork suburban bar business.