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Pól Ó Conghaile

“Do you know when, after a few beers, you make a plan to take over the world but it never really happens?”

Well, this one might. Cillian Mulligan, Paul Kelly and Vino Mulligan are sitting in Mo Chara (mo-chara.ie), telling me how their punky, funky, spark of a bar came to be. How years of spitballing, banter and a college group chat evolved into a trailblazing Irish pub.