{"id":229889,"date":"2026-01-06T06:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229889\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T06:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:22:15","slug":"wexford-man-returns-home-after-buying-his-former-family-business-its-in-my-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/229889\/","title":{"rendered":"Wexford man returns home after buying his former family business \u2013 \u2018It\u2019s in my blood\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Greg Whelan has taken ownership of the family pub where he was raised, marking a full-circle return to Cahore after years working in hospitality abroad\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Greg Whelan from The Strand Cahore. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/b006a56a-4eff-4d30-ad05-3fd43c42f53a.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)\">Greg Whelan from The Strand Cahore. PHOTO: Sabrina Ffrench<\/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)\">A Wexford man has returned to his homeplace to continue the legacy of his family owned pub after taking ownership of The Strand in December 2025.<\/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)\">Greg Whelan was born and raised in The Strand, Cahore and returned in December with his wife Emma to take over the reins. Greg said the moment that confirmed he would take the reins of his family business was surreal. \u201cThere&#8217;s sometimes I have to pinch myself to realise this is real, this is happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greg Whelan has taken ownership of the family pub where he was raised, marking a full-circle return to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[11711,72,61,60],"class_list":["post-229889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alan-white","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229889","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=229889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}