Today marks St Patrick's Day and to mark the occasion the ECHO has spoken to owners of some of the city's most loved Irish bars and pubs.
Originally from Tipperary in the Republic of Ireland, Richard Lanigan runs a number of pubs and has a furniture business in his native country. His attention turned to Merseyside in 2014, when his business partner invited him to a day at Aintree racecourse.
Richard, 61, told the ECHO: "He asked me to come over to the races at Aintree. We had a few drinks together, we were inside The Empire pub on Hanover Street.
