{"id":650488,"date":"2026-10-10T10:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/650488\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T10:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T10:56:11","slug":"founder-of-peploes-in-dublin-leaves-more-than-e2-8m-in-will-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/650488\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Peploe\u2019s in Dublin leaves more than \u20ac2.8m in will \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dublin restaurateur Barry Canny<\/a>, founder of Peploe\u2019s restaurant, left an estate valued at \u20ac2.86 million, papers published by the Probate Office have shown.<\/p>\n

Canny, of Dalkey, Co Dublin, established Peploe\u2019s \u2013 named after the Scottish post-impressionist painter Samuel John Peploe \u2013 in the style of an upmarket New York brasserie, located at 16 St Stephen\u2019s Green, in 2003.<\/p>\n

The restaurant became quickly notable, hosting such celebrities as former US president Bill Clinton<\/a>, Luciano Pavarotti, Julia Roberts<\/a> and Bono<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Canny famously got into a spat with then CEO of Intel<\/a>, Craig Barrett, when the latter publicly complained of the price of eating in Peploe\u2019s. <\/p>\n

Barrett had referred to the cost of the meal for two as an example of the high costs of doing business in Ireland. Canny reportedly replied: \u201cHe can\u2019t come in here with his big cigar and tell us how to run our country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"BarryBarry Canny with the guest book from Dublin’s celebrated Jammet Restaurant. Photograph: Dave Meehan <\/p>\n

Among Canny\u2019s other hospitality ventures was Brownes Townhouse on St Stephen\u2019s Green, which opened in 1998. This was one of Dublin\u2019s first boutique hotels and featured 12 luxury bedrooms above a brasserie grill. He ran it with his wife Dee for five years before selling to a Spanish group. The building later became The Cliff Town House, then Floritz.<\/p>\n

Another venture was The Olive restaurant in Sandycove, Co Dublin. He was also involved in a clothing boutique, Browns Boutique, which he operated before fully committing to the restaurant industry.<\/p>\n

Canny died on February 14th, aged 73. <\/p>\n

Other records at the Probate Office show Tony Hourihan, University College Dublin<\/a> professor, finance expert and philanthropist, left \u20ac2.093 million when he died in October last year. <\/p>\n

Hourihan, of Crosswaite Park, D\u00fan Laoghaire, Co Dublin, specialised in banking and finance. Beyond his work in Irish academia, he championed charitable causes and was a primary supporter of Casa Nano Nagle \u2013 a foundation aiding vulnerable families and children in Alto Hospicio, Chile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He died suddenly in Chile, where a formal funeral mass was held in Santiago. <\/p>\n

The figures quoted in this article include all assets, typically including a family home, investments and land<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin restaurateur Barry Canny, founder of Peploe\u2019s restaurant, left an estate valued at \u20ac2.86 million, papers published by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37002,26016,72,31281,615,61,60,8765,5861,45546,39935],"class_list":["post-650488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-bill-clinton","tag-bono","tag-business","tag-chile","tag-dublin","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-julia-roberts","tag-restaurant","tag-st-stephen-s-green","tag-university-college-dublin-ucd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650488","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=650488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}