Hooray for mr Mc.Kenna again!
In an interview with some other expat magazine he said that for some time, he hadn't wanted to be at the Courtyard (indeed, the only time I went there, surprise, he was nowhere to be seen). It's a good thing to know for all of us who went there to fork a substantial amount of money for an extremely "meh" experience: the chef of the restaurant, the one whom the restaurant is actually named after, doesn't want to be there. I'd have been grateful to have this piece of information when making the reservation: our head chef doesn't want to be there. I would have gone to TRB instead, or to get a burger at Great Leap: somewhere else.
Now he delivers some bullsxxt about how he doesn't feel like doing haute cuisine anymore (I suspect because he didn't get the accolades he wanted and The Courtyard didn't become the fine dining powerhouse it was conceived to be) and, not even a month after opening this new gastropub, he doesn't want to be there, either. So yeah great, as somebody else pointed out in the comments, with these credentials I really can't wait to check this new fancypants concept he's working on (or Molly Malone's for that matter, I feel pity for the poor suckers who've decided to run it now)