{"id":45876,"date":"2025-09-05T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/45876\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:28:08","slug":"end-of-an-era-for-popular-county-limerick-restaurant-as-sale-is-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/45876\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;End of an era&#8217; for popular County Limerick restaurant as sale is announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE OWNERS of the popular restaurant Molly\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kilfinane<\/a> have announced the \u201cend of an era\u201d as their time in the restaurant has come to a close.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Facebook on Thursday night, September 4, the Philpot and Watson families confirmed that the restaurant will change ownership, saying: \u201cThe new chapter at Molly\u2019s will begin in October.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The families told their followers, many of whom are loyal customers, that it was their honour to have been \u201ccustodians\u201d of Molly\u2019s for 23 years, but felt it was \u201cnow time to hand over the reins to its new owners\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a successful business long before we arrived and we have no doubt it will be successful long after we leave,\u201d they continued.<\/p>\n<p>At time of writing, close to 200 comments have been left on the post, with many followers and customers wishing the families good luck on their next chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Customers thanked them for \u201call the laughs over the years,\u201d with one commenter saying: \u201cI think I had a laugh every time I was in, and I was in a lot!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their \u201cfantastic meals, company and craic\u201d were also praised, with another customer adding that they have been \u201ca wonderful asset to the village over the years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/what-s-on\/1880909\/limerick-brushstrokes-at-ballyfin-autumn-winter-residency-unveiled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick brushstrokes at Ballyfin: Autumn Winter residency unveiled<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In their joint post, the owners said: \u201cIt has been our pleasure to have served you all for so long, we value all the friendships we made along the way. It was our privilege to have catered for so many of your occasions, birthdays, anniversaries, communions, etc. We even hosted a wedding reception!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t put into words how grateful we are for all your loyal support and business over almost two and a half decades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement, signed by Paul \u2018Phil\u2019 Philpott, Marie Watson, Jose O\u2019Sullivan Philpott and Stephen Watson, thanked their \u201cwonderful\u201d staff over the years, adding: \u201cFor us they were like our family\u2026 we couldn\u2019t have done it without you all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They advised anyone with a Molly\u2019s gift card to use it before September 26, which is \u201cthe date that the Philpot\u2019s and Watsons will finish our Molly\u2019s chapter,\u201d and assured locals that Marie will continue with her regular services to Scoil P\u00f3l, making school lunches daily.<\/p>\n<p>The families added that \u201cmore details will follow,\u201d before concluding their post with: \u201cAlthough we won\u2019t own Molly\u2019s anymore\u2026 Molly\u2019s will always own a little piece of us.\u201d<\/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":"THE OWNERS of the popular restaurant Molly\u2019s Kilfinane have announced the \u201cend of an era\u201d as their time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,889,18,877,19,17,19124,1844],"class_list":{"0":"post-45876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-county-limerick","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-facebook","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-kilfinane","15":"tag-limerick"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45876","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=45876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}