Press Up: Industry undercurrents buffet the restaurant-bar-hotel leviathan


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Like a mythological creature rising out of a murky sea, Press Up group has come to dominate the horizon and landscape of Dublin’s bar, restaurant and hotel trade in the decade since Ireland’s economic collapse, becoming, in quick fashion, one of the biggest players on the scene. With a portfolio of more than 100 businesses dotted across the capital, its suburbs, Cork, Galway and, increasingly, the UK, Paddy McKillen jnr and his business partner Matt Ryan have made no small amount of noise with their forays into the market, snapping up numerous properties before bending and shaping them in their...