Has last orders been called on the 'Disneyfying' of Irish Pubs?

[apelles]

IPC...R.I.P?

AFTER trading for almost three decades and creating more than 1,000 Irish bars from Sydney to Shanghai the 'Irish Pub Company' has called a creditors' meeting, triggering fears for its survival..

http://www.independent.ie/business/i...m-1925897.html

[PVC King]

Any word of the outcome of this meeting?

I visited a few of the Fado bars in the US and they were very well done a la the Porterhouse fit out. what killed this off was not the lack of design but the equity stake that Diageo wanted for funding the fit outs in a market where getting the buildings themselves was the hard part. There will always be a market for Irish pubs and refitting existing ones but I very much doubt the scale of the mid 1990's in Europe/US or the early 2000's in Asia will ever be repeated again.

If in a far flung place and you wanted to catch the rugby they were a godsend; hopefully a rump will survive

[Pot Noodle]

A million a pop jeez i did a fair share of Pubs in Dublin always around 400,000 to 500,000 a pop should have charged more bugger

[apelles]

Looks to be official alright, though as for as i can ascertain Mcnally Design & the Fado group are still operating and going strong.

IN THE MATTER OF
THE COMPANIES ACTS 1963-2009
AND IN THE MATTER OF
THE IRISH PUB COMPANY LIMITED
(In Voluntary Liquidation)
At a Meeting of the Creditors of the above Company, duly
convened and held at The Mount Herbert Hotel on
6th November, 2009, the following Resolutions were passed:
‘‘That it has been proved to the satisfaction of this Meeting
that the Company cannot by reason of its liabilities
continue its business and that it is advisable to wind up the
same, and accordingly that the Company be wound up
voluntarily and that Mr. Simon Coyle of Mazars, Block 3,
Harcourt Centre, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2 be appointed
Liquidator for the purposes of such winding up.’’
Dated this 6th November, 2009.
SIMON COYLE,
Liquidator.