After accidentally stepping into Mulligans pub, Pádraig Brady was presented with an opportunity he couldn't turn down
10-years ago, Pádraig Brady had no experience of running a pub. However, a fateful wrong turn down a Manchester street changed the course of his life.
It may have been a miss-step in direction, but Pádraig said as soon as he walked into Mulligans he saw the potential of the pub. After returning there several times, he got speaking to the previous landlord who after learning Pádraig's background as an accountant, asked for his advice on the business.
Pádraig's story adds yet another chapter to the colourful history of one of what is one of Manchester's oldest Irish pubs. Up until the 1990s, the pub was known as the Waggon and Horses, a name it had for around 170-years.In the book Central Manchester Pubs written by the University of Salford's Dr Deborah Woodman, it says the pub's history dates all the way back to the 1820s.
And this is the ethos the pub's present landlord follows to this day. Pádraig says while the price of a Guinness there may be a bit more expensive that other places, the premium service, surroundings and atmosphere, as well as pouring the 'best pint of Guinness outside of Ireland', means they're so busy they're having to turn hundreds of people away every week.
"I'm sure I could open a British cask ale pub, but I wouldn't be as good as others at it because I don't understand it. Of course you can learn it, but there's learning and feeling and growing up in it – that's different."
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