{"id":148842,"date":"2025-10-28T02:57:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148842\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T02:57:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:57:09","slug":"end-of-an-era-as-renowned-donegal-bakery-and-cafe-announces-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148842\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era as renowned Donegal bakery and caf\u00e9 announces closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is certainly the end of an era in Donegal Town with the closure of Dock 84 owned by O&#8217;Hehirs, a bakery and caf\u00e9 which operated for many years as the Oven Door under previous ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The owners took to social media to confirm the closure, saying: &#8220;We\u2019d like to say a heartfelt thank you to all our wonderful customers in Donegal Town for your loyalty and support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dock84 \/ O\u2019Hehirs Bakery Donegal Town is now closed, but this isn\u2019t goodbye. You can still order your favourite occasion cakes for collection from our Ballybofey and Letterkenny shops.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegallive.ie\/video\/pictures---videos\/1928438\/watch-mary-meehan-sings-danny-boy-at-her-105th-birthday-coffee-morning.html\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch &#8211; Mary Meehan sings Danny Boy at her 105th birthday coffee morning<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re so grateful for the memories and look forward to welcoming you soon in our other locations.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Hehir&#8217;s made the move to the Main Street car park premises in July 2024, trading as Dock 84 and offering the same range of bakery goods, and with a new brunch and lunch menu in the caf\u00e9 section.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Before that, it had operated on the Diamond in the long-established caf\u00e9 and bakery known under previous ownership as the Oven Door, and which is now the home of Eske Pharmacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is certainly the end of an era in Donegal Town with the closure of Dock 84 owned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,40835,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-148842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donegal-town","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115449551195560313","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}