Shariden Truly, Anchor: Kitty Hoyne’s Irish pub is celebrating it’s 25th anniversary this week, and as NCC News’s Jack Ziskin tells us, the bar remains true to it’s roots.
Jack Ziskin, Reporter: Kitty Hoyne’s owner, David Hoyne, grew up in a town of 15-hundred Back in Ireland before marrying his wife Cindy, a Syracuse native. Hoyne has grown to appreciate the city in a way people born in Syracuse may not.
David Hoyne, Kitty Hoyne’s Owner:”As a blow in maybe you see it more- than- like what the saying is- it’s hard to see the trees from the forest.”
Jack Ziskin, Reporter: Kitty Hoyne’s has become part of that community, and he is proud of The pub’s charitable work.
David Hoyne, Kitty Hoyne’s Owner: 2005 st. Baldrick’s… It kinda rhymes with St. Patricks so it’s a Fictional saint right? So they shave their heads and raise funds – whatever else – nowadays everyone is bald you know?
Jack Ziskin, Reporter: Hoyne said there’s a reason the pub is celebrating it’s 25th Anniversary.
David Hoyne, Kitty Hoyne’s Owner:People’s favorite place to go. It doesn’t have to be the best, as long As it’s the favorite
Jack Ziskin, NCC News
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) — Kitty Hoyne’s Irish Pub is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week. Kitty Hoyne’s owner, David Hoyne, grew up in an Irish town of 1,500 people. He opened the pub with his wife Cindy, a Syracuse native, in 1999 and named it after his mother Catherine “Kitty” Hoyne.
Now Hoyne is a father of two, living an ocean away from the small town in Ireland where he was born, but he hasn’t forgotten where he came from. Hoyne says, “Well, that’s what we want to do, want to be, people’s favorite place to go. You know it doesn’t have to be the best, just the favorite.”
Hoyne is proud of his pub’s place in the community. Since 2005 the Irish pub has helped raise $7 Million dollars for St. Baldrick’s, a charity that raises money to help fund research to cure childhood cancer.
Hoyne cares deeply for a Syracuse community that embraced his pub 25 years ago. He has a different perspective of the community than someone born and raised in Syracuse. “As a blow in maybe you see it more than – like what the saying is – It’s harder to see the trees from the forest,” Hoyne said,
