Temple Bar

Duke of York owner Willie Jack says his pubs will now close by midnight

THE developer behind a new £20 million Moxy hotel in Belfast has said he wants Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter to rival Dublin’s Temple Bar as a tourism destination.

Gallagher’s Boxty House 20-21 Temple Bar, Dublin 2 00353 1 6772762 boxtyhouse.

EVERY so often, a photograph of a receipt from a city centre pub in Dublin – it’s usually Temple Bar, to be fair – will pop up on social media with the poster inviting outrage for the fact that they have had to take out a small mortgage to buy a pint of fizzy, flavourless mass-produced lager and a spirit plus mixer (the €3 mixer is always the piece de resistance).

HEALTHY fast food chain, Leon has confirmed that the north is included as part of major Irish expansion plans.

TYRONE footballer Cathal McCarron had to be restrained after he rowed with staff in a Dublin city centre pub, a court has heard.

FROM the hundreds of thousands who left Ireland as a result of the Great Famine and the waves of emigration since, in the 1950s, the 80s and into the 21st century, we're keenly aware that emigration has been huge a feature of life on the island.

RISING Irish talent Gavin James will be among the line-up at today's BBC Music Day event at Stormont.

Klaw is not so much a restaurant as a wide corridor, open on to the street and at a point that’s not very clear, the eating area becomes the kitchen.