O’Hara Group Archives

O’HARA GROUP WALKS THE TALK

Posted on October 8th, 2025 by Jane Louise

This year, O’Hara Group’s twelve venues from across Sydney, Port Stephens and Illawarra got behind STEPtember – a workplace fitness challenge created by Cerebral Palsy Alliance. Despite it being their first time competing in this challenge, the group placed in

O’HARAS ON TRACK AT PARRAMATTA

Posted on July 14th, 2025 by Clyde Mooney

The O’Hara Group has expanded its presence in Parramatta, quietly opening an all-new brownfield pub in the heart of the CBD. Station Hotel is a all-new, multi-level watering hole on Church St, opposite Westfield, for up to 450 patrons. It

CHEERS TO 60 YEARS: O’HARAS CELEBRATE COMMUNITY AND CONNECTION

Posted on September 27th, 2024 by Jane Louise

The O’Hara Group’s Berkeley Hotel celebrated a milestone with the regulars last weekend as the suburban local reached its 60th anniversary. Opening on 21 September 1964, the hotel has seen a lot of change over the decades. General manager and

O’HARAS COLLECT WIN IN COVID COURT CHALLENGE

Posted on January 19th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney

The O’Hara Group has successfully challenged a fine from the state regulator over COVID regulations, at Parramatta’s Collector Hotel. Following the first tranche of lockdowns, the O’Haras were forced to reconfigure aspects of their venues, particularly the spacing of machines

O’HARAS COME UP ROSES WITH CAMELIA

Posted on November 1st, 2021 by Clyde Mooney

It’s spring in Rosehill and the precinct has grown a picturesque new pub beside the racecourse – the O’Hara group’s new Camelia Hotel. The O’Haras have unveiled a new pub in the heart of Sydney's western suburbs, on a corner

LAUNDY O’HARA CRUICKSHANK BUY BIG IN ALBURY

Posted on July 2nd, 2021 by Clyde Mooney

Continuing the interest in hot regional assets, the Laundy O’Hara Cruickshank consortium has bought Albury’s Springdale Heights Tavern for $22 million, representing a regional record. Established in 1988 on a huge 1.2-Ha corner site on arterial Kaitlers Rd in Lavington,

O’HARA VILIFIED OVER ILGA’S LIA SYSTEM

Posted on December 4th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney

Hoteliers jumping through hoops have again become targets for mainstream media critical of anything relating to gambling or liquor that they don’t understand or like. The Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority (ILGA) in NSW has a long-established system of considering

DOG-DEBATE: O’HARAS LAUNCH YAPPY HOUR

Posted on November 29th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney

As NSW ponders whether to loosen laws on dog-friendly areas in pubs, Dan O’Hara’s Collector Hotel at Parramatta is embracing fur-babies with its new weekend Yappy Hour. The Collector is a down-town pub in Sydney’s second CBD, Parramatta, and appropriately

O’HARA ADDS TO HIS COLLECTOR HOTEL

Posted on April 7th, 2017 by Clyde Mooney

Dan O’Hara and his gun chef(s) are about to revamp Parramatta’s Collector Hotel, after taking the keys this week. The Collector resides in a Western Sydney University building, in booming Parramatta. The leasehold business boasts the unusual benefit of retaining