Drink up to new store

WHAT a name for a bar to have to trade and labour under — The Poor Relation Grocery and Pub.

You’d have to go in for a look, and you might come out after a pint or two with a loaf of bread, a cake or even a ukelele. Not only is it going to sell liquor, it’s also going to be part-grocery, and musical instrument shop, a stone’s throw from Cork City’s bus station.

Just renamed, the bar which traded as The Parnell, is being leased by Cliona McCabe and managed by Gordon McKnight. Ms McCabe has family links in the city’s bar trade and is associated with the Rising Sun Brewery which operates the Blackdog Rock & Metal Bar, North Main Street, 6 on Bridge Street and El Fenix on Union Quay.