{"id":373170,"date":"2026-03-30T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373170\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:40:08","slug":"owners-of-landmark-seaside-wicklow-pub-mcdaniels-announce-surprise-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373170\/","title":{"rendered":"Owners of landmark seaside Wicklow pub McDaniel\u2019s announce surprise closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fernando and Alannah Figueira, owners of McDaniel\u2019s of Brittas Bay.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/b91211d4-24b3-44ce-984b-a03a389ae54e.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)\">Fernando and Alannah Figueira, owners of McDaniel\u2019s of Brittas Bay.<\/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 owners of an iconic pub in Wicklow have announced that \u201cwith heavy hearts\u201d they have made the decision to close the premises.<\/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)\">McDaniel\u2019s has been Brittas Bay\u2019s landmark destination since the 1970s. Fernando and Alannah Figueira took ownership of the property in May of 2024, which resulted in them reopening the bar, caf\u00e9, and restaurant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fernando and Alannah Figueira, owners of McDaniel\u2019s of Brittas Bay. The owners of an iconic pub in Wicklow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,4657],"class_list":["post-373170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-myles-buchanan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373170","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=373170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}