More power to them. All the comments here are sour grapes. The comments stink of jealousy and envy. They applied, they jumped through the hoops, they got money-Welcome to America. If you don't like it, tough.

get even people. Boycott them in every way possible. Do not go there, do not recommend them as a tourist stop. Perhaps that will give them a true taste of losing business.

I don't see how any bar here could have lost 600k due to the oil spill. Why didn't lots of bars and other businesses file? How did they ever prove this amount and how can you claim it wasn't your own bad business practices or whatever. There is something rotten here.

Where is the oversight on dispensing these funds? This is an outrage and if not outright illegal, it should be.

BP made a mistake-- a big one-- and they should pay. But they should pay people (such as those along the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts) who really suffered long-term financial losses-- not leeches out to suck blood money from large corporations.

Everyone who lives here knows that we lost absolutely nothing during the period of the spill. In fact, all the tourist dollar numbers were up for virtually every business in Key West. We picked up the business which fled from the Gulf Coast.

Finally, I didn't think my opinion of Horan could go any lower, but this display of avaricious ambulance-chasing has driven it lower than low. I hope he gets prosecuted along with these bar owners.

As a former entrepreneur having started 7 businesses in my 45 year career, one of which was a restaurant/bar, and in Key West retirement working in several retail establishments during and after the oil leak, I find it mind blowing that such an amount, any amount, was paid if based upon this business grossing $203,514 less in the year of the spill. I am assuming the $203,514 was lost gross sales and not profit; your paper does not specify. The establishments I worked for during and after the spill did not have ANY loss of revenue in 2009, and, my wife,who worked at two major Key West hotels, states that they experienced no loss of business in 2009. How forensic accountants and/or the BP claims process can conclude that such a loss at one business was directly related to the oil leak is beyond comprehension. Did they research the gross incomes of ALL similar businesses on Duval and find that they all experienced such a downturn? If those businesses did, they should ALL have submitted a claim for they missed the boat. I suspect that many or most did not experience a loss of income in 2009. Good for the owners of Irish Kevin's; bad for BP stockholders many of whom are/were people (and institutions such as pensions)just like you and me. America the beautiful!

That is just stupid. Numbers where up that year. How did Kevin's loose out on money? Bad management, lazy owners, bad investments (Oceanside). Next BP will be paying them because they opened a restaurant in a bad location. And by the way, Irish kevin's is not a pub, it is a bar. A pub has character, and not just a warehouse of drunks.

I'm furious at BP and Transocean for what happened in the Gulf. But this sure sounds like a shakedown. For most of us, business went on virtually interrupted by that oil spill.