THE Dirty Onion and Yardbird recently celebrated its first birthday party, complete with a dirty onion birthday cake and an appearance from Santa, in the form of a dressed up Jameson barrel man!

The Cathedral Quarter bar and restaurant has welcomed over 220,000 customers through the doors in its first year of business.

It has sold 245,550 pints, 29,872 whiskies and 16,895 chickens.

It opened last November following a  £1.25 million refurbishment of a four-storey listed building and is part of the Beannchor Group – Ireland’s largest hospitality group, which boasts a portfolio of over 50 pubs, hotels and restaurants.