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Paddy Barry’s, a respectable and true to form Irish pub in Quincy Center is up against a controversial and technically out of town real estate development company that seeks to see the pub evicted in spite of a five year lease agreement extension for use of the premise.

While the South Shore Broadsheet ran a Page One above the fold feature story and for which it deserves serious props for putting to print a solid and as as extended a story as it has published in recent years, Quincy Quarry News is where its ever-growing legions of loyal readers turn to find out the real dirt behind the story.

Reality, Paddy Barry not only has a clean record with local inspectors and the Quincy Police Department, it also has a solid 4.1 rating on Yelp.

While small in size, Paddy Barry’s is long on things Irish and making its customer feel welcome as well as be the place to be catch an Irish football game — something which Americans call soccer — or catch some other broadcast from the old sod.

The milk of politicians …
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The developers, on the other hand, have a long and arguably sordid history.  Not only are they Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s top campaign fund contributors by far, the two joint partners of the development company were busted by the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance for making illegal “straw” campaign contributions.

Straw campaign contributions primarily to Mayor Koch and almost as much illegal straw money dropped to former Massachusetts Attorney General and now Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey.

The developers also have formal history of being a lousy landlord, including a lawsuit filed by another local commercial tenant and which eventually Mayor Koch got the developers out of a jam by buying the property and then paying the tenant $1.2 million in taxpayer-funded money to go away.

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Most telling of all, the developers conversely have a long and sordid history with their own licensed to pour operation within their longtime headquarters compound in Allston, a history which the online newspaper Universal Hub has long and doggedly covered.

As for the problems, check out the following but sampling of Universal Hub stories about usually City of Boston licensing board hearings over serious violations ranging from illegal serving of alcohol to gun violence at the developers’ Allston licensed to pour facility.

• Russian club seeking city permission to expand runs afoul …
• Battle over closed Allston club and its liquor license moves into court
• Allston club that remains shut after double shooting last fall …
• Troublesome Allston club is closed for good after latest gun ...

“You have go to be kidding …”
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Quincy Quarry has also long followed the developers’ problems with running a licensed to pour operations; in particular, the expected any day decision by the City of Boston’s licensing board to likely as well as finally voiding the developers’ liquor license for cause.

In the meanwhile, Paddy Barry’s continues to be a perfectly respectable place for someone to have a drink, perhaps watch a sporting event in Ireland or otherwise unwind.

That and Paddy’s owner asked for $1.32 million in damages from its landlords.

Erin Go Braugh!

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