‘Use it or lose it!’ Those are the words of Dr Ignazio Cabras of the University of York’s management school, who along with a group of British researchers is currently half way through a year long study of the Irish Pub. They will be looking at the vital economic role public houses play in…
According to an article published in the Financial Times newspaper in January 2012, ‘almost 1,000 pubs have closed since the Celtic Tiger economy peaked in 2006 and publicans warn that a further 5,000 jobs will be lost during 2012.’ But the reality today is that Irish social habits have changed irreversibly. With the recession, people…
