Johnny Foley, the Irish-born singer whose name became synonymous with one of San Francisco’s best-known Irish pubs, has died at 94.
Foley died Saturday, according to an announcement from Johnny Foley’s Irish House, the Union Square-area pub named after him. The pub described him as an “icon within our San Francisco Irish community” and said he had been part of its extended family.
Foley was born May 28, 1932, according to the announcement…