John Mulligan

That was the junction on Camden Street.

And he bought another pub soon after the Bruges House in Dauphins Barn.

So Dublin became his focus then.

And he gradually started accumulating pubs over the following decades to build up quite an empire for himself in terms of the pub trade.

Yeah, so obviously he owns, as I said, most of these pubs are in Dublin.

He does own the actual two pubs in Adair that were in the family, but it's Dublin that's really the epicentre for kind of his pub trade.

So he owns pubs like the Oval on Middle Abbey Street in Dublin.

He owns Goat.

He also owns some pubs

kind of other high profile pubs like Searsons on Bagot Street.

He owns the bank on College Green.

They employ hundreds of people.

So it's a big business.

He also owns the shopping in Dublin as well, the Orchard.

So it's really built up quite a pub empire.

Yeah, in the scheme of things, they do pretty well.

There is plenty of accounts available that you can see publicly online for these businesses.

Searsons, for example, made a profit of about €830,000 in 2024.

The company that's behind the bank on College Green made a profit of about €320,000 last year.

So by and large, when you consider the amount of pubs that are there,