Corrigan’s Deerpark Inn set for opening

Chef's new pub to opens in Virginia.

Chef Richard Corrigan's latest culinary venture, the Deerpark Inn in Virginia, is set to open later today (Saturday).

The Irish restaurantrepreneur’s transformation of the former Chestnut Tree pub will come full circle when it opens to the public for the first time.

Describing it as his “love affair”, Corrigan says excitement is building ahead of the launch.

The new bar will open Saturday 3pm til late, and Sunday from 12:30pm- with sports aired on a big screen, live music and more.

Sister to the nearby Virginia Park Lodge which Corrigan bought in 2013 for a reported €1.1 million, the Ballivor-born chef sees his new venture as “being a pub in that very Irish sense”.

“With the [Park] Lodge, and with this now I think we’ve tuned into something really good. It’s comfy loungy. I personally think it looks great. There’s a lovely sense to the place. We’ve Luke [Dodd] who did work for us at Daffodil Mulligan, he curated the art for us [at the Deepark Inn]. He has a wicked sense of humour and you should see what he done with some of the stuff.”

He adds: “We’ll go three days a week maybe, then extend that further maybe from September, Wednesday to Sunday. It about making sure we do it right. This is business at the end of the day. We’ve invested a lot into it, I don’t need to tell you that. It’s a lovely bar for growing up, and the people of Virginia will tell me soon enough what they think of it.”