The Association’s Western Chapter is delighted to invite you to an evening with Pat McDonagh at the University of Galway – J.E Cairnes School of Business & Economics on Thursday, 26 February from 6.30pm. The format of the event will be a fireside chat.

Pat McDonagh is the Managing Director of Ireland’s most successful indigenous quick service family restaurant group, Supermac’s. With over 118 restaurants throughout the country, Supermac’s has gone from strength to strength with a turnover well in excess of 82 million and over 2700 employees. As well as being the owners of the iconic Supermac’s, Pat & his wife, Una, are also the owners of the Plaza Group of motorway service stations that includes the Barack Obama Plaza and the Portlaoise Plaza. Pat and Una own the Só Hotel Group that includes the Castletroy Park Hotel and Castle Oaks Hotel in Limerick, the Loughrea Hotel & Spa, the Charleville Park Hotel in Cork, the Killeshin Hotel in Portlaoise and the Athlone Springs Hotel.  Each hotel is an award winner with the LoughRea Hotel and Spa recently having been selected as the best wedding hotel in Ireland while the CastleTroy Park was selected by couples as the best wedding hotel in Munster.

Pat believes that a strong community is built on being actively involved in sport and community and he was awarded the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Industry. Both Pat and Una were honoured with an outstanding contribution award by the Irish Sponsorship Association for their commitment to sponsorship over the past 45 years.