physically less able to keep it going and the answer was the syndicate and a year after the community got together and opened the street bar it is an enormous success and Noel who is a gardener by trade has been telling me the story of the little pub that could.

Rumours will go out now and again that the bar is going to be sold or closed and it never materialised really but I suppose I would know her son they all have played in the GAA club and I was chairman of the club and kind of just let it be known that to those lads if they ever thought about closing the bar that maybe the community might be able to do something so that call came in January of 2025 to say yeah look we're closing the bar we're going to sell it are you interested in buying it Well, at that stage, it was only myself.

It was an idea.

So panic stations kind of set in a little bit.

I contacted a couple of guys that I knew would be like-minded, and we were wondering how could we do this.

It kind of grew legs after a while, and maybe we had five or six people involved.

Then we hit upon the idea of... getting us in to get together to buy the pub.

Would you recommend... taking on the community pub venture for a community that is down to its last pub or about to lose its last pub?