The Village bar in Cork's Douglas is braving the All-Ireland Final for a soft opening

Former East Village bar is in new hands and has undergone a rebranding

The Village, Rooms, Bar & Kitchen in the East Douglas Village, Cork which will reopen this weekend. Picture Dan Linehan

Can you have a ‘soft opening’ of a bar, restaurant, and hotel business on a crazy Cork weekend of an All Ireland final?

As she prepares to open her business venture The Village in Cork’s suburban Douglas, Gillian McCarthy sweetly says she and her hospitality business partner Patrick Dillon hope so.