THE company behind Dublin nightclub Copper Face Jacks has reported accumulated profits of €75.46million for 2017.

Breanagh Catering Ltd recorded pre-tax profits of €4.095m last year, which is just over €78,000 per week.

Boosted by another Dubs’ All Ireland senior football win in September of last year and a booming night scene in the capital, the Coppers firm’s cash jumped from €59.84m to €63.78m.

Last year’s pre-tax profits declined by 20 per cent from €5.16m to €4.09m because directors and joint owners Cathal Jackson and Paula Jackson gave themselves a bumper pay rise.

In the 12 months to the end of January 2018, the two shared pay of €1.28m, or €24,775 per week.

The €1.28m in pay represents a 63 per cent or €497,688 pay rise on the €790,568 paid out to the two in the previous year.

Numbers employed at the venue decreased from 218 to 196 as staff costs, including directors’ pay, increased from €4.42m to €5.14m.

Coppers, in the Jackson Court Hotel on Dublin’s Harcourt Street, opened in 1995.

Showing that the boom times in the capital night-time scene are not confined to Copper Face Jacks, pre-tax profits at the group which operates the storied Oliver St John Gogarty pub in Temple Bar last year more than doubled to €13.35m.

The jump in pre-tax profits at the Martin Keane-controlled Drayton House Holdings Ltd was largely as a result of a non-cash reversal of a property write-down of €7.37m.

Every year tens of thousands of tourists descend on the the well-known Dublin pub named after the literary figure immortalised in James Joyce’s Ulysses where he appeared as Buck Mulligan.

The new figures for Drayton show that the pub’s success contributed to revenues increasing by 4% from €16.24m to €16.89m at the group in the 12 months to the end of February 28 2018.

The group also operates Blooms hotel in the Temple Bar area and the accounts show that the group’s cash pile jumped from €8.4m to €12.19m.

Accumulated profits at the group increased from €34.87m to €46.86m.

Numbers employed by the business increased from 108 to 114 with staff costs going up from €2.8m to €3m.