Cheers to trophy bars

TWO top Munster bars, one in Cork City’s suburbs, the other in East Cork, have come up for sale for a receiver, with best bids sought by the end of July.

Described as trophy bars, and trading very well, they are the 5,000 sq ft McDaid’s in Midleton, near the Jameson Distillery Visitor Centre, and the even larger, c 7,300 sq ft Flannery’s, a lynch-pin suburban bar in Cork city, near Wilton, UCC, major hospitals. Flannery’s is in a densely populated setting serving Wilton, Glasheen and Bishopstown, an area which has seen a significant loss of bars in the past decade.

Associated with publican John Gaffney and other investors, the two bars are now being sold for receiver Stephen Tennant of Grant Thornton, via agent Cearbhall Behan of Behan Irwin Gosling, and are likely to attract separate buyers.