{"id":234987,"date":"2026-01-08T22:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234987\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:40:13","slug":"kerry-publican-retires-after-sale-of-famous-bar-held-by-generations-of-his-family-we-had-great-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234987\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry publican retires after sale of famous bar held by generations of his family \u2013 \u2018We had great days\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\">Michael Larkin-McCarthy spent almost four decades running the bar which has been in his family since its establishment in the 1860s\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Outside Larkin's on Sunday: Donal Kelliher, Helen McCarthy, Padraig McCarthy, Dan Kelliher, Larkin-Ann McCarthy, Gerard Larkin-McCarthy, James McCarthy, Shane O\u2019Sullivan, Catherina McCarthy with 3 week old Baby Cian \u201cLarkin\u201d O\u2019Sullivan, Michael Larkin-McCarthy, Kate Barry, Eleanor McCarthy-Barry.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/d590e4de-2dda-486b-b11e-cc1b66ae3253.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)\">Outside Larkin&#8217;s on Sunday: Donal Kelliher, Helen McCarthy, Padraig McCarthy, Dan Kelliher, Larkin-Ann McCarthy, Gerard Larkin-McCarthy, James McCarthy, Shane O\u2019Sullivan, Catherina McCarthy with 3 week old Baby Cian \u201cLarkin\u201d O\u2019Sullivan, Michael Larkin-McCarthy, Kate Barry, Eleanor McCarthy-Barry.<\/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)\">The publican who ran one of Kerry\u2019s most enduring family establishments is enjoying retirement after pulling his last pints on Sunday.<\/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)\">Michael Larkin-McCarthy (70) was born and raised in Larkin\u2019s Bar in Milltown. The pub was established by his forebears in the 1860s and he took over the business with his late wife Breda, who died in 2018, nearly four decades ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Larkin-McCarthy spent almost four decades running the bar which has been in his family since its establishment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,3332],"class_list":{"0":"post-234987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-jack-joy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234987","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=234987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}