| Wicklow People | 24th July 2003 | staff reporter |
ONE of the best-known pubs in the country has been sold for close to €2.5 million. The sale of Jack Whites Inn, six miles north of Arklow on the main road to Dublin, was clinched some weeks ago. The new owner is Kerryman Tadhg Kennedy, who has returned to this country from Britain with his wife and young family to take over the pub.
The pub had been on the market for sale for almost two years before being sold by private treaty.
Jack Whites hit the national headlines in 1996 when Tom Nevin, then a joint owner of the pub with his wife Catherine, was shot dead in the kitchen while he was counting the St. Patrick's weekend takings.
Three years ago, in one of the most famous murder trials in Irish legal history, Catherine Nevin was convicted of the murder of her husband.
In January 1998, Catherine Nevin has sold Jack Whites pub for €620,000, or just a quarter of what it has now made, to bloodstock owner and farmer Derek Weld, his son Stuart, both from Arklow, and top chef John Kennedy, who has a home in Carlow.
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