Restaurateur Jay Bourke declared bankrupt over €558,000 tax debt
Bourke tried to have most of his €13.7 million debts written-off in failed court arrangement
The stress of tackling big debts head on: ‘You don’t want to be a failure’
The State’s decade-old personal insolvency regime is slowly becoming a less adversarial arena for creditors and debtors
Government considers €60m windfall tax on energy companies as bills soar
Seen & Heard: Jay Bourke’s debts, Gan’s results, and homes at O’Devaney Gardens also make the headlines
Jay Bourke looks for alternative cash to finance €12m debt write-off plan
Restaurateur seeks new finance as hoped-for windfall from investment in broker fades
Jay Bourke is haunted by the ghost of personal guarantees
Contingent debt from Meath hotel hindering businessman’s chance at financial rehab
Publican Jay Bourke seeks €12.5m debt write-off in court bid
Well-known restaurateur wants High Court to approve personal insolvency arrangement
Poet Máire Mhac an tSaoi ‘remained engaged with the world outside’ up to the very end
Bilingual requiem Mass takes place at Our Lady of Dolours church in Glasnevin, Dublin
Berlin D2 pub to appeal court decision not to renew licences
Judge refused renewal of Dublin bar’s licences after event flouted health guidelines
Last orders for Berlin D2 bar as judge refuses to renew licences
Footage of customers and staff flouting Covid-19 guidelines went viral after brunch event last year
Dublin’s Berlin Bar faces licence challenge after controversial brunch event
Gardaí object to bar keeping licence over claim of Covid rules breach
Berlin D2 owner promises ‘well supervised’ brunches this weekend
Jay Bourke says ‘strict controls’ in place to ensure ‘20 seconds of madness’ not repeated
Jay Bourke: ‘The last recession, it changed everybody’
Critics and past creditors of the talented publican-restaurateur ‘could fill a small bar’
Jennifer O’Connell: Are we becoming an accidental Sweden?
Viral videos and Calleary’s golf buddies evidence our strategy is to tweak and fudge
Rage over Berlin bar is a distraction from what Ireland must do
Caveat: Contrast the controversy here with the calm acceptance of a pool party in China
Department of Health reports no further Covid-19 deaths and 56 new cases
Minister for Health warns more deaths likely to follow spike in confirmed cases
Donnelly says behaviour like that seen at Dublin bar ‘poses a threat to life’
Owner of Berlin D2 says footage ‘looks terrible but it ain’t that terrible’
Ronan ‘hopeful’ Bewley’s will reopen on Grafton Street
Search for new food operator, hotel plan an option if premises remains shuttered
Dublin’s mayor says he will lead effort to save Bewley’s cafe
Closure of historic cafe ‘rubs salt in the wounds’ of those affected by Covid-19 pandemic
Bewley’s: Covid-19 nail in the coffin for Dublin's best-known coffee shop
Grafton Street outlet shuts due to rent and loss of up to 80% of turnover under social distancing
Bewley’s on Grafton Street to close permanently with loss of 110 jobs
Staff told Covid-19 lockdown and high rent make reopening unviable
Carval strikes deal with McFadden to keep Market Bar out of examinership
Launceston Property Finance understood to be owed some €900,000 by Mercroft Taverns
Jay Bourke has disqualification extended to 7 years
Court finds restaurateur and publican continued to trade for some two years after he knew the operating company was insolvent
Prominent Dublin pub baron’s group to open other new boutique hotels in 2018
Who will buy the next round on the frenetic Dublin pubs market?
Restaurant premises on South William Street sells for €2m
Two-storey mid-terrace building is fitted out to a modern standard with two roof lights
Bellinter House hotel set to be bought in €3m cash deal
Barry O'Sullivan to buy Co Meath property owned by Jay Bourke and John Reynolds
Company behind Market Bar records pre-tax profit of €410,457
Mercroft Taverns had a deficit of shareholders funds of €309,329 at end of 2013
New breed of investors puts the buzz back into the Dublin pub scene
Growth in tourism and economic recovery spurring investment in city centre venues
Bourke checks back in to Bellinter House
Jay Bourke and John Reynolds have now retained Firebreak to run Bellinter
Bellinter hotel owners settle with operator Bourke Reynolds Partnership
Partnership denied it ever gave DCM a five-year lease
Judge urges parties to settle Bellinter House Hotel dispute
Restaurateur Jay Bourke and hotel manager at odds over terms of contract to run boutique hotel
Jay Bourke hopes to solve dispute with DCM Hotels
Bellinter operator has filed a High Court case against co-owners of country house hotel
PantiBar pleads guilty to breaking smoking ban
There weren’t any no smoking signs on display and the bar had a cigarette vending machine
Jay Bourke gains access to Eden in advance of court hearing
Court hears landlord has agreed to allow restaurateur Jay Bourke back into Dublin restaurant
Jay Bourke seeks injunction to access Eden Bar and Grill
Landlord of Dublin restaurant alleged to have changed locks over rent
Planners take restaurants off menu on retail streets
Planning policy appears to be hardening in Dublin’s southside retail core
Dublin’s Market Bar fined €750 over smoking ban breach
Court told smoking area in Fade Street pub was ‘effectively an enclosed area’
Restaurants come second in new order
Planning policy appears to be hardening in Dublin’s southside retail core
The worst advice I ever got . . .
Sometimes it’s a good idea to take the ‘wisdom’ of others with a pinch of salt, as these highly successful individuals found out the hard way
Whose round is it, anyway?
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