Confusion over future of Irish bar amid public anger

Mystery surrounds the future of a bar in Leyland after it was formally given the go-ahead to openhaving seemingly already closed.

- by Paul Faulkner

Rum Jack's-at the junction of Towngate and Malden Street-is understood to have begun trading in September last year.

The venture-billed as 'Leyland's first Irish Bar'-replaced Fat Sam's restaurant, but a recent meeting of South Ribble Borough Council's planning committee heard permission had not been sought for the conversion.

Councillors have now granted the necessary approval-but committee chair Caleb Tomlinson noted during the debate that the business appeared to be shut whenever he passed by.