Restaurant owner Jay Bourke has been disqualified by the High Court from acting as a company director for seven years.
Mr Bourke had earlier this year agreed to a disqualification period of five years arising out of the liquidation of his now closed Shebeen Chic pub on South Great George’s Street in Dublin.
However, Mr Justice Robert Haughton held the period of disqualification, effective from August 1st next, should be seven years.
The judge said the focus of the misconduct by Mr Bourke in this case must be that he continued to trade for some two years after he knew the operating company was insolvent.
After hearing Mr Bourke was a director of 14 companies and needed a little time to resign those directorships, the judge agreed to put a stay on his order until August 1st. Those other directorships include Panti Bar and Bobos Burgers in Dublin.
