{"id":408285,"date":"2026-04-20T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408285\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T13:32:12","slug":"bray-pub-re-opens-after-years-of-closure-with-new-owner-banking-on-good-food-and-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/408285\/","title":{"rendered":"Bray pub re-opens after years of closure with new owner banking on good food and community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mark Roche (right) and business colleague Bruno Szmelter, in the Castle Inn, Bray. Photo: Leigh Anderson.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776691932_833_Bp Castleinn1.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)\">Mark Roche (right) and business colleague Bruno Szmelter, in the Castle Inn, Bray. Photo: Leigh Anderson.<\/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)\">In an era when pubs across the country are closing their doors amid rising costs and changing drinking habits, the decision to re-open a large premises in County Wicklow after years of closure seems a bold one.<\/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)\">Yet at the northern entrance to Bray, a familiar building has been given a new sense of purpose under the stewardship of experienced publican Mark Roche. While the pub\u2019s provenance goes back to the 1970s, first as Cullinane&#8217;s, then McCormack\u2019s, Kenny\u2019s and later, Kavanagh\u2019s, this is a new chapter, one the new owner feels will give it a well-needed contemporary twist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark Roche (right) and business colleague Bruno Szmelter, in the Castle Inn, Bray. Photo: Leigh Anderson. In an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,10687],"class_list":["post-408285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tom-galvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408285","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=408285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}