21/6/2017 Kildare Pub Fires. A POPULAR BAR and restaurant in Co. Kildare has been badly damaged in a fire overnight.
The Village Inn on Main St. in Celbridge employs about 20 people and the site is reputed as the place where Arthur Guinness brewed his first beer.
The fire damaged a number of parts of the premises but a section of the bar is said to be worst affected.
Kildare Fire Service units from Leixlip and Maynooth were alerted to the blaze at about 3.30am and the fire was extinguished. Photo Eamonn Farrell/Rollingnews.ie