HI FROTHY
Yes you are quite correct it was up the ramp along side of the st martins church in the middle of the bull ring ;
and my old dutchess held the licence there and i ran it with her for a period before parting with the management over a disagreement
but the pub was a irish theme pub ; and it was called the blarney stone ; and previously it was the materdor and licence resturant and on the night of the grand pening we had big jack charlton and alan towers from the BBC Sports anouncer and he brought along a commediun we charged 25 per head on the door on the night and they qued right up the bull ring to get in and they paid the money for a night with big jack;
and it was an all nighter lock in he stayed at the hotel on broad street went he wnt home at five thirty in the morning he drank the lot dry before going
the pub was last known before this a the materdor and a resturant and the story there was rennay and renarter was a gay couple the one left the other one and the other one hung himself down the cellar and thats when its change the name and owners ; during my stay there we had a friend of a friend
whom was a DJ On the radio and my long term friend is a mr big on the BBC AND HE SENT HIM ALONG TO ME To help him out
as he had a morning slot at the beeb ; and he asked me to suply a prize every day at the blarney up stairs in the resturant and i was giving out lunches
for a prize when you rang is show and answered questions on the hstory of the bull ring if you was correct the prizes was a bottle of wine and a meal for two at miday ;which we done ; my wife and our barmaid whom is also well known irsh family known whom we employed came towork for us in many of our pubs we used to run had there picture taken privately with big jack charlton in the blarney stone ;in the bull ring best wishes to you all astonian;;
