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'{{Refimprove|date=March 2013}} {{Infobox company | name = O'Neill's | logo = | caption = | type = Subsidiary | traded_as = | genre = <!-- Only used with media and publishing companies --> | fate = | predecessor = | successor = | foundation = 1994 (Aberdeen) | founder = Bass Brewery | defunct = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | location = 27 Fleet Street, Birmingham, B3 1JP | locations = | area_served = UK | key_people = | industry = Hospitality | products = Irish-themed pubs | services = | revenue = | operating_income = | net_income = | aum = <!-- Only used with financial services companies --> | assets = | equity = | owner = | num_employees = | parent = [[Mitchells & Butlers]] | divisions = | subsid = | homepage = [http://www.oneills.co.uk O'Neill's] | footnotes = | intl = yes }} '''O'Neill's''' is an [[Irish pub|Irish-themed]] [[pub chain]] with 49 outlets in the United Kingdom. The chain is operated by [[Mitchells & Butlers]], one of the largest [[pub company|pub companies]] in the UK. Pubs are located across the whole of the UK, except for [[Northern Ireland]], where there are none. The chain's focus is on Irish music, an Irish inspired food menu and Irish drinks such as Guinness, Jameson and Baileys. ==History== [[Image:O'Neills in Cannon Street - geograph.org.uk - 881730.jpg|thumb|180px|right|O'Neill's on [[Cannon Street]] in the City of London]] The first O'Neill's was opened in Aberdeen in 1994 by [[Bass Brewery|Bass]], the largest pub company in the UK at the time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ihgplc.com/index.asp?pageid=326 |title=InterContinental Hotels Group PLC : About us - Our history |publisher=Ihgplc.com |date= |accessdate=2015-05-20}}</ref> A second O'Neill's opened at Covent Garden in 1995. By 1996, there were 52 and it was Bass's most successful pub chain. By 1996, Bass was opening more than one a month, and had spent £40 million on the pub chain. Ten opened in September 1996 alone. Bass owned Caffrey's, which was launched by the company around the same time as O'Neill's. By late 1996, Bass was opening a branch of O'Neill's every week. By the end of 1997, Bass had over 250 Irish-themed pubs. Bass acquired the 40-strong Scruffy Murphy's Irish pub chain from Allied Domecq in 1999. By June 2003, Mitchells and Butlers had 91 O'Neill's. From 2012, M&B began to rebrand some locations as "O'Neill's Irish Pub & Kitchen". By 2013, the chain's estate had reduced to 49 public houses.<ref name="mb">{{cite web|url=http://www.mbplc.com/ourbrands/oneills/ |title=Mitchells & Butlers - Our brands - O'Neill's |publisher=Mbplc.com |date= |accessdate=2015-05-20}}</ref> ==Operation== The pubs specialise in Irish [[music of Ireland|music]], [[Irish cuisine|food]] and drinks, especially [[Guinness]], [[Smithwick's]] (for which it has exclusive rights in Great Britain), and, until early 2013, [[Caffrey's Irish Ale]]. On St. Patrick's Day, they sell over 71,000 pints of Guinness.<ref name="mb" /> ==Estate== [[File:ONeills, Covent Garden, WC2 (3614084206).jpg|thumb|upright|O'Neill's Covent Garden]] [[File:Sutton, Surrey London Sutton High Street -.JPG|thumb|O'Neill's in [[Sutton, London]]]] [[File:ONeills, Earls Court, SW5 (7413737448).jpg|thumb|upright|O'Neill's Earls Court]] Greater London * Blackheath * Beckenham * Blackfriars * [[Bromley, London]] * Cannon Street * Carnaby Street * Clapham * Earl's Court * Finchley * Harrow *[[Ilford]] * Islington * King's Cross * [[Kingston upon Thames]] * Leytonstone * London Wall * Muswell Hill * Richmond * Soho * [[Sutton, London]] ===South East England=== * High Wycombe * Oxford * Reading * Winchester * Woking ===North West England=== [[Image:O'Neills Pub 2.jpg|thumb|O'Neill's on Hannover Street in Liverpool]] * Liverpool * Didsbury, Manchester * Preston ===North East England=== * Newcastle upon Tyne ===Yorkshire and the Humber=== * Cleethorpes * Leeds * York ===East Midlands=== * Leicester * Northampton ===West Midlands=== * Broad Street, Birmingham * Moseley * Worcester * Solihull [[File:O-Neils-St-Albans-20050614-001.jpg|thumb|upright|O'Neils-St.Albans]] ===East of England=== * Brentwood * Peterborough * Southend on Sea * St Albans ===South West England=== * Bournemouth * Cheltenham ===Scotland=== * Aberdeen * Glasgow, Merchant Square * Glasgow, Sauchiehall Street ===Wales=== * Cardiff ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://www.oneills.co.uk O'Neills] * [http://www.mbplc.com/ourbrands/oneills/ Mitchells & Butlers] {{UK Food}} [[Category:1994 establishments in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Companies based in Birmingham, West Midlands]] [[Category:Restaurants established in 1994]] [[Category:Irish restaurants]] [[Category:Mitchells & Butlers]] [[Category:Pub chains]]'