{"id":29096,"date":"2025-08-28T17:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29096\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:10:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:10:12","slug":"owners-of-thriving-wicklow-family-pub-to-sell-up-after-28-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29096\/","title":{"rendered":"Owners of thriving Wicklow family pub to sell up after 28 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Derek and Sandie Stanley, from the Boomerang Bar, Bray. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1cf59d6e-afbf-40e4-a1c9-abfd2bb10e37.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Derek and Sandie Stanley, from the Boomerang Bar, Bray. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It has been the the subject of a film made by students at Bray Institute of Further Education, survived the brutal lockdowns five years ago and threw a big party when Penneys opened last July, just a hop, skip and jump down the celebrated laneway, which comes alive with the sound of music every weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Now, sadly, Sandie and Derek Stanley, who have owned and run the Boomerang Bar, in Bray, since 1997, are moving on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek and Sandie Stanley, from the Boomerang Bar, Bray. It has been the the subject of a film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,9273],"class_list":{"0":"post-29096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-tom-galvin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29096","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=29096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}