Beer makers Bru set to open pub with brewery in Navan

Bru, the craft beer company founded in Meath just three years ago, is to open a Bru House pub in Navan next month.
The Bru House, on the site of the former O'Flaherty's Pub on Railway Street and Brews Hill, will incorporate a micro-brewery making the company's award-winning beers.
“We would hope to have it open in about four week's time,” explains Daire Harlin, one of the founders of Bru.
It will be their third Bru House pub, having opened in Fairview in Dublin just a couple of weeks ago, and in Newbridge in Kildare earlier in the year.
The Navan project will bring about 30 jobs, 10 full time, all of which were filled through a big canvas sign hung on the side of the building.
“We'll fill all of our jobs from that notice – we had 600 applications,” Daire says.
The Newbridge pub, formerly Rose Earley's, has been doing very well since it opened in July.
The Bru House will stock the company's own labels and other craft beers, and bigger corporate brands will be absent from the taps and shelves.
Bru is now one of the leading craft beers on the Irish market, and is also distributed in the UK, with 100 people working for the firm at present.
At the 2016 World Beer Awards, it won four gold medals and a country winner award, including two gold medals for its lager.  It won gold medals for its Irish Red Ale, Irish Stout and a Country Winner award for its Irish Craft IPA.
The construction of a brewery in Navan will see beer making return to the town where there originally was a brewery on the River Blackwater a century ago. O'Flaherty's Pub is a well known public house, previously Dessie Brady's, and prior to that, was owned by the Loughran family.
Bru already has a brewery operating out of Trim, and in 2014 was winner of the small to medium enterprise, and the overall winners of the Meath Chronicle Meath Business and Tourism Awards.