Sinéad Ní Churnáin looks at how Tom Mulligan turned the Cobblestone Pub in inner-city Dublin from an early morning ale-house into a home from home for traditional musicians. The family-run business became the centre of media attention when thousands took to the streets of the capital to fight a planning application for a nine-storey hotel, which, if successful, would have threatened the very existence of what the Cobblestone had become. In Irish.
