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Belfast Telegraph
12-07-2025
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- Belfast Telegraph
Inside the history of one of NI's ‘happiest and most beautiful' pubs and why ‘the original bar has to stay'
Laura McDaid speaks to the owners of a Co Fermanagh bar popular with well-known faces and locals alike Writer John McGahern once described Blakes of The Hollow in Co Fermanagh as 'one of the happiest and most beautiful bars in the whole of Ireland'. The author of Amongst Women and The Dark wiled away many an hour in its cosy snugs before his death in 2006.
Belfast Telegraph
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Belfast Telegraph
‘We hope Blakes remains a constant on the Enniskillen townscape for hundreds of years to come'
Laura McDaid speaks to the owners of a Co Fermanagh bar popular with well-known faces and locals alike Writer John McGahern once described Blakes of The Hollow in Co Fermanagh as 'one of the happiest and most beautiful bars in the whole of Ireland'. The author of Amongst Women and The Dark wiled away many an hour in its cosy snugs before his death in 2006.
Belfast Telegraph
09-05-2025
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- Belfast Telegraph
‘We thought it was a wind-up at the start': Limavady bar exudes old world charm with just one modern furnishing – a Game of Thrones door
As Owens' bar looks forward to turning 100 next year, Laura McDaid speaks to its landlord about bottles of the Black Stuff, Game of Thrones and new generations In 1959, Guinness Draught was brewed for the very first time to celebrate the 200-year anniversary of Arthur Guinness signing a 9,000-year lease on St James's Gate Brewery in Dublin. But when it arrived at Owens' bar in Limavady in the early 1960s, the punters were suspicious of this newfangled technology and proprietor Frank Owens eventually told the brewery to take the tap back as no one was ordering it.
