Gigs and games give Longboats €1.5m sale a welcome lift

Blackrock Road bar the Temple Inn, or Longboats, is rooted to the locale near Páirc Uí  Chaoimh and 'burbs

Launched for sale: Longboats (aka The Temple Inn) in Ballintemple on Cork's Blackrock Road is guided at €1.5m by Anthony O'Regan of Keane Mahony Smith. Picture: Larry Cummins

FROM quiet days of Bob Dylan sinking a pint of Cork stout in his Ballintemple bar Longboats, to years running some of Cork’s best known bars, as well as an early serving career on the dining cars of CIE’s mainline rail services, pub owner Billy O’Driscoll has seen it all.

Bob Dylan playing a more recent Live at the Marquee gig