St Patrick's Day events spur on coronavirus hospitality recovery

St Patrick's Day is always a large event for Koroit's Mickey Bourke's Hotel, but this year owner Wendy Murley said the day was a chance to boost business following the hard restrictions on hospitality venues due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"Our lunch and dinner sittings are pretty booked out already which is great," she said.

"There will be music all day for people to drop in. With Covid, we're just trying to work through it and this will be great to help us out."

Mickey Bourke's will have its traditional green beer on tap and live music from Wednesday Whistlers, Peter Lawlor, Mick Morgan, Ben Witham, Peter Daffy, Mel and Trevor and Crossley Craic.

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The Seanchai Irish Bar will be pouring Guinness from lunchtime with duo Mitch and Jackson playing from 7pm. Owner Matthew McMahon said the venue would also celebrate one of its regulars, Bernie O'Keefe, drinking his 5300th pint of Guinness.

"Wednesdays are usually a quiet day for us so we're definitely hoping a few punters will come along and have a Guinness," he said.

"St Patrick's Day is always a big day for us. We were able to have it in some capacity last year but I think we had capacity limits.

"The past 12 months have been tough but we're on the road to recovery now and this will help us get there."

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