Capital Bars

Capital Bars and Hotels plc
Private
Industry Entertainment and Hospitality
Founded 1988
Headquarters Dublin Ireland
Key people
 William L.B. O'Dwyer, Desmond O'Dwyer, Joint Managing Directors
Revenue €36.1m (2004)
Number of employees
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Slogan Rest Assured
Website www.capitalbars.com

Capital Bars plc (formerly known as Break for the Border Group plc) is an Irish leisure company based in Dublin. Its core business is the acquisition, development and operation of bars, hotels and restaurants, all based in Dublin city centre. Brothers Desmond and Liam O'Dwyer control the company as Joint Managing Directors. After acquiring Capital Bars in 2001, the O’Dwyers took the company private the following year.[1][2]

The company entered mixed examinership/receivership on September 19, 2009; five days after poor results showing a 10m euro loss in the previous year.[3] At that time the portfolio of five multi-themed bars (several of them 'superpubs') included:

All were situated in key locations in Dublin City Centre. On October 13, 2010, the Freehold of Cafe En Seine was purchased by Businessman Louis Fitzgerald, owner of The Fitzgerald Pub and Hotel Group. Four of the properties, Café En Seine, The Dragon, The George and Howl at the Moon. were later sold for a reported €15 million in late 2014.[4]

Capital Hotels

The hotel division includes:

Trinity Capital Hotel, a classic contemporary style hotel close to Trinity College in Dublin city centre.

Grafton Capital Hotel, a traditional Georgian style townhouse hotel with 75 bedrooms at the top of Grafton Street in Dublin city centre.

The official website of Capital Hotels Dublin is www.capital-hotels.com

The business originally began in O'Dwyers Bar and Lounge, in Mount Street Dublin 2. This small family run pub was extensively refurbished by elder brother Liam O'Dwyer in the early 1980s[5] and became the first "victorian style" pub of which Dublin is so well known for now. This was also one of the first pubs in Dublin to sell "pub-grub" at lunch times.

References

  1. ↑ "Capital Bars comes Full Circle with MBO approval". Irish Independent. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Pub barons O'Dwyers in the red on Trinity Capital". Irish Independent. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "Hospitality firms seek court rescue to save 900 jobs". Irish Independent. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "Capital Bars sell for far in excess of their guide price". Irish Independent. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Liam O'Dwyer". Irish Independent. Retrieved 15 January 2015.

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