A Cork harbour pub with 150 years of history and a 50-year link to Murphy’s Brewery is up for sale — just two years after being revived by its current owner — because it got too popular.
That’s according to experienced hospitality professional Eugene Sheehan, who is now selling the award-winning Murph’s Bar, located by the water in Monkstown/Raffeen.
Mr Sheehan has worked in hotels, catering, and hospitality since the early 1990s — including at the Rochestown Park Hotel with Liam Lally — and helped set up the Maryborough House Hotel in 1998.
He later worked in the finance sector’s hospitality division in Ireland, abroad, and with Qantas Airways, before returning to live in the Cork harbour…