It is wonderful to see the magnificent work being carried out at the former Central Hotel on Peter Street - including Haughney s Hole in the Wall.
It has an extraordinary history and it would take a book to record it all, but going back to 1898, Albert Robert Kelly took over the license for it.
It was a place famous for great gatherings, not least in September 1901 when newly elected MP for Louth, Joseph Nolan arrived by train from Dublin to be met by the Colonel Leonard Band and he was paraded in a torchlight procession to the Central for a gathering.