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Bar-a-Cuda shuts its doors

Posted Sunday, January 8, 2012

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Closing

The Bar-a-Cuda has shut its doors.

The For Sale sign is up outside.

That brings the number of pubs in Moville down to just 8 when there used to be sixteen that many local people can remember.

Indeed my father remembers 17 as Donal's butchers used to be McCoriston's pub before it was a sweet shop.

I also saw a report on internet that Moville used to have 26 pubs in 1996 when the population was the in the 11 hundreds compared to the 1,465 at the last census.

No Buyers

The For Sale sign is up but no one is buying pubs any more in Ireland with pub icences plummeting in price.

The Corner Bar has been on the market for a few months now with no sign of a sale.

Mike Murphy is concentrating on running his new Moo-licious business which will bring 30 jobs to the town and doesn't have the time to put the work into his pub.

I suppose that with each pub that closes it gives the others a better chance of survival.

Festivals

It will definitely hinder the festivals, though, as anyone who saw The Cavernites and Candlestick Park play there during the BeatlesFest last year and Jacques Mees on the final night of the DylanFest last year will tell you.

It will mean that there is one less pub to contribute to costs such as getting late licences.

Where will it all end?