{"id":149,"date":"2012-12-04T19:28:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/?p=149"},"modified":"2012-12-04T19:28:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-04T19:28:57","slug":"hugh-oregan-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/news\/hugh-oregan-dies","title":{"rendered":"Hugh O&#8217;Regan dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_150\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/files\/2012\/12\/thomas-read.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\" wp-image-150 \" title=\"The Thomas Read Group\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/files\/2012\/12\/thomas-read.jpg\" alt=\"The Thomas Read Group\" width=\"531\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/files\/2012\/12\/thomas-read.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/files\/2012\/12\/thomas-read-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Thomas Read Group<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Businessman Hugh O\u2019Regan, the hotelier and publican who established The Thomas Read Group, died unexpectedly.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The group owned a large number of Dublin\u2019s most profile pubs, including The Bailey, Pravda, Searson\u2019s and Ron Black\u2019s, as well as the Morrison Hotel. O\u2019Regan started the chain when he bought is first pub in Dublin in 1988, before building it up into Ireland\u2019s biggest pub chain.<!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>He sold a stake in the business in 2002, before eventually bowing out four years later, netting an estimated \u20ac35 million in the process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>O\u2019Regan subsequently devoted his time to property development but the business was forced into liquidation in 2009. Loans with a value of \u20ac170 million from Irish Nationwide and \u20ac80 million were transferred to Nama.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman Hugh O\u2019Regan, the hotelier and publican who established The Thomas Read Group, died unexpectedly. The group owned a large number of Dublin\u2019s most profile pubs, including The Bailey, Pravda, Searson\u2019s and Ron Black\u2019s, as well as the Morrison Hotel. O\u2019Regan started the chain when he bought is first pub in Dublin in 1988, before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,27,1],"tags":[44,88,90,89,91,92],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-news","tag-44","tag-businessman","tag-hotelier","tag-hugh-oregan","tag-publican","tag-thomas-read-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebizsense.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}