{"id":654917,"date":"2026-10-14T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/654917\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:58:09","slug":"mcdaids-a-legendary-dublin-literary-pub-has-been-sold-to-the-mangan-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/654917\/","title":{"rendered":"McDaids, a legendary Dublin literary pub, has been sold to the Mangan brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>McDaids pub, one of Dublin\u2019s most renowned literary pubs, and its sister pub The Druid\u2019s Chair in Killiney, have been sold by the Cosgrave brothers to the Mangan family, who owns another of the capital\u2019s best pubs, Doheny &amp; Nesbitt\u2019s. In a statement this Wednesday evening, brothers Oliver and Paul Cosgrave confirmed the sale while declining to comment on the price paid. \u201cOliver Cosgrave announces his retirement from the licenced trade after 40 successful years in the pub trade,\u201d their statement said. \u201cIn partnership with Paul, Mount Merrion House was the first pub purchased in 1986 and was created in\u2026<\/p>\n<p>    &#13;<br \/>\n        <a class=\"restricted-content__logo\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/wp-content\/themes\/currency-theme\/assets\/img\/Monogram-dark.svg\" alt=\"Logo\" width=\"290\" height=\"246\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n        <\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Join today with an Annual Membership and get full access to The Currency and The Wall Street Journal for just \u20ac200 or try Monthly Membership for just \u20ac5 for your first month.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"cta-btn\" href=\"https:\/\/thecurrency.news\/pricing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cancel at any time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hide_mobile\">Are you already a member? .<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;\n    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; McDaids pub, one of Dublin\u2019s most renowned literary pubs, and its sister pub The Druid\u2019s Chair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":654918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,277403,10414],"class_list":["post-654917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mangan","tag-pub"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654917","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=654917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}