Still in the game: Charlie Chawke
After surviving the recession, publican Charlie Chawke is now running nine hostelries and planning to expand his own local, the Goat. But he still carries a debt burden from his 2005 purchase of the Orchard in Rathfarnham for €22 million
CV: Charlie Chawke
Role: chief executive and owner of the Chawke Group of pubs
Age:69
Lives: Dublin
Family: married to Bernice, they have five grown-up children
Favourite book: Michael Collins: The Man Who Made Ireland by Tim Pat Coogan
Favourite film: Michael Collins
Hobbies: attending GAA and other sports events, socialising in his pub The Goat of an evening
I meet Charlie Chawke in Searson’s, a treasured pub among his nine hostelries. Nine ...
