Athlone pub wins prestigious award

Prominent Athlone pub Gertie Brown’s won a Hi Style award for Most Stylish Bar recently.

The Hi Style awards ceremony was held in the Clayton Hotel Silver Springs in Cork on Saturday last.

Peter Scully, joint owner of the pub said that they were “completely shocked” after hearing the news. The local bar has been opened under its current management for the past two years.

Peter said that they were sent an email in late September to say that Gertie Brown’s had been nominated and we’d never heard anything about the Hi Style awards before.

Peter added: “We never heard anything about the awards until we received our notification that we had been shortlisted.”

He said that one of the judges of the awards, Celia Holman Lee, had enjoyed a lunch with a group of people a couple of weeks prior to the pub making the shortlist.

The hostelry was also nominated for Most Stylish Casual Dining.

Hi Style.ie is Ireland's leading social, business and wedding diary and the annual Hi Style awards help to recognise and honour Ireland’s Most Stylish Businesses.