{"id":221977,"date":"2026-01-01T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221977\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:02:08","slug":"why-a-wexford-man-decided-to-hand-over-ownership-of-popular-bar-right-before-christmas-it-needs-a-new-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/221977\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Wexford man decided to hand over ownership of popular bar right before Christmas \u2013 \u2018It needs a new energy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Paddy Blues in Gorey has gone under new ownership as Jimmy Fleming steps back form the popular venue.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/fec188f7-6f87-4411-9aca-4bc3da454ade.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Paddy Blues in Gorey has gone under new ownership as Jimmy Fleming steps back form the popular venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">An iconic bar and venue in Gorey has seen a change in ownership as well-known Wexford man, Jimmy Fleming has handed over the reins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Taking ownership of Paddy Blues in 2020, Jimmy said it was a difficult decision to make but is confident it has been the right one. \u201cIt was a hard decision, but it feels a lot better now, it&#8217;s like a weight lifted off my shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paddy Blues in Gorey has gone under new ownership as Jimmy Fleming steps back form the popular venue.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11711,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-221977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-alan-white","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}