An iconic 150-year-old Co Meath pub that burned down on New Year's Eve has reopened in a temporary premises this week.
Fagans pub in Moynalvey, also known as Scut Fagans, has featured on the big and small screen.
It was made famous by Hall's Pictorial Weekly in the 1970s and 1980s, where pub scenes from the fictional village of Ballymagash were filmed.
It also featured on programmes such as Ireland's Eye.
In more recent times, Fagans was used as a location in Oscar nominated Irish language film, An Cailín Ciúin.
The premises burned down in the early hours of New Year's Eve, leaving just the four walls of the building standing.
Proprietor John Reilly, whose family have owned Fagans since 1999, said he got a call at about 5am and when he arrived, five or six fire brigades were on the scene.
"Initially, I thought it might be contained. Then, it just went up", he said.
By midday, he said emergency services were still trying to contain it and it smouldered for a long time.
No one was in the pub at the time, and there were no injuries.
Mr Reilly said the pub serves the local community in Moynalvey, as well as Summerhill, Trim and further afield.
"It was a huge shock. We are all upset and devastated. There are a lot of memories here, people have a lot of memories from the locality", he said.
However, the Reillys did not dwell on the massive upset for too long, and within weeks devised a plan to rebuild, in the short and long term.
They have spent the last ten weeks converting a shed adjacent to the original pub, which was previously used for storage.
This week, they returned to serving customers in this temporary home, just in time for big events like Cheltenham and St Patrick's Day next week.
The ultimate goal is to rebuild Fagans as it was.
"There is no time scale. The big plan is to recreate what we had as close as we can to that", he said.
Beth-Ann Reilly runs the pub with her brother John.
They estimate it will take at least a year but probably longer to rebuild.
"We always had the shed, the shed was our store room. We said we'd just convert that for a temporary bar and it just got legs. We're thrilled with the results," she said.
On the reopening this week, Beth-Ann said they were "delighted to be back" and thinks customers are happy they're back too.
At this stage, the family say they still don't know what caused the fire.
"As of yet, we don't know the cause of the fire. We know what it wasn't, as opposed to what it was, we may never find out. It was an accidental fire," Beth-Ann said.
"The plan is to go with the same again, the very same build, the very same visually looking build. It was working before, so we would be foolish to change it," she added.
Pat Linnane from Kilcock, Co Kildare, has been a patron of Fagans for about 30 years and stopped by to see the new premises.
"This is an iconic pub, absolutely iconic. I think for everyone around Meath and Kildare, it's just one of those pubs people love to visit. Love the camaraderie, love the people behind the bar. It has a huge history."
"It's just one of those pubs that's had massive traction for the local area. When you look around this area, there's very, very little, this is almost the hub," he said.
Barry McGann from Moynalvey agreed, and said everyone in the parish said it was a "disaster" when the fire happened.
"Fagans was the hub of the community, everything that went on, funerals, celebrations, you name it, it happened here, so it was the centre of the community. And when that happened, there was a big vacuum, a big hole left, and everyone was heartbroken," he said.
