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An entrepreneurially minded couple has purchased Eastern Ontario’s internationally known shrine to Irish revelry, the Douglas Tavern, with plans to turn it into a mattress showroom for their growing business.
Over the decades, the old-style tavern – which still sports a “Ladies & Escorts” sign out front – developed a reputation as the place to gather for wearing of the green while belting out Auld Lang Syne and crying in your beer. People came from everywhere. Every now and then, you might run into somebody directly from Ireland who had somehow heard of the Douglas Tavern.
Getting into the act, the Renfrew County village – located just outside Eganville, slightly more than an hour west of Ottawa – in which the tavern is located became the self-described “Home of the Leprechauns.”