Barry O’Donovan was inducted as a member of the Cranford Rotary
at the Rotary meeting on July 11. O’Donovan
is the owner of Kilkenny House Restaurant & Pub in Cranford.
O’Donovan, who is known for always putting family and community
first, exemplifies Rotary’s slogan “Service Above Self”. He was
honored by the U.S. Small Business Administration with the Phoenix Award for
Outstanding Disaster Recovery for reopening Kilkenny House just six weeks after
Hurricane Irene hit. At the time O’Donovan said he was proud and humbled
by the honor, and insisted the award wasn’t just for him, but for all of
Cranford. He continues to be a fixture in the community,
always willing to support local causes.
O’Donovan came to America
from Kilkenney, Ireland in 1979. He worked at Joyce’s in Manhattan and owned
Henry Grattan’s Restaurant & Bar and the Judge & Jury in Bay Ridge,
Brooklyn. In 2002 when his children were
born he decided to move to Cranford. He
opened Kilkenny House on Sept. 10, 2008, as a place where families could come
for dinner.
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