Mount Clemens — After a decade of serving fish and chips and pouring Guinness, O’Halloran’s Public House has closed.
“We’ve weathered the highs and lows of the restaurant industry, faced challenges we never could have imagined, from floods to COVID, and everything in between. Through it all, we kept going because of you,” reads a statement posted to social media this week. “This place has been so much more than a business to us — it’s been a home, a family, and a community.”
The post thanks current and former staff members and customers.
“This isn’t the ending we hoped for, but we are so proud of the memories we created together over the past decade,” reads the statement. “We’ll carry them with us always.”
The downtown Mount Clemens pub opened in 2016 as an homage to owner Paul Boone’s mother, who was born Nora O’Halloran in Galway Bay in Ireland. She was 92 when O’Halloran’s Public House debuted.
“I’ve always had this desire to open up an Irish bar and name it after my mom,” Boone told The Detroit News in 2016, just after opening. The Boone family also owns Orleans Billiards and Sports Cafe and is involved with Bath City Bistro, both in downtown Mount Clemens.
Formerly John Barleycorn’s, a bar, restaurant and comedy club, O’Halloran’s had a bar and restaurant, and also a Celtic-themed banquet room that sat around 100.
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Reporting by Melody Baetens, The Detroit News / The Detroit News
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