March/April 2021

PEOPLE
“WE MAKE THE DOUGH AT MOUNT
DRUID THEN TAKE IT UP THE ROAD.
IT’S WORKED QUITE WELL AND
HELPED ALLEVIATE THE BOREDOM OF
LAST YEAR.”
COVID
Having been shut during Covid, Adrian turned
his attention to an old church in the village,
transforming it into a pizzeria. “We make the dough
at Mount Druid then take it up the road. It’s worked
quite well and helped alleviate the boredom of
last year.”
As for the wedding bookings? “We have been fair
with them all and just said, ‘pick a new date’. There
is so much pent up demand in the market that we
are going to be very, very busy and, in Ireland, we
still don’t know when we can open – we’re having
to play it by ear.”
So, is Mount Druid in profit? “That’s a very good
question. When you look at what I spent on the
place over the past 15 years you’d probably want to
put me in a straitjacket. But we now have the place
how we want it and this would have been the year
we would have seen the financial benefit. I am sure
it will happen, but then I am an eternal optimist!”
Friends have also described Adrian as ‘a bit(!)
mad’. “Way back in 2010 when I told the locals
about my plans for glamping, no one knew what it
was, and they then said no one would want to stay
anyway. I have confounded them all!”
DETAILS
Mount Druid
Castletown, Castletown Geoghegan
Co. Westmeath, Ireland
+353 44 922 6679
www.mountdruid.ie
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