Anthony Joshua takes on Wladmir Klitschko on Saturday. Katie Taylor will be fighting Nina Meinke on the under card. We’ve put together a list of pubs that will be showing the action. McGowans McGowans in Phibsboro will have all the action on their 12 screens, followed by a late bar afterwards. Email […]
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May, and the promise of warmer weather, are fast approaching. In Ranelagh, McSorley’s are going to ease you into the Summer with a whole month of festivities. They’re putting on live music 7 nights a week, including Bootleg Beatles, Skinny Elvis, Luna Boys, Mood Indigo, and loads more. So, if you’re in and around […]
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We popped into the launch of the Dennis Dinneen exhibition in the Douglas Hyde gallery in Trinity College last week to have a peek around. Dennis Dinneen was a publican from Macroom in Cork who took portraits of his family and the local people in the back room of his pub from the 50s […]
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Renovations have been ongoing in Molloys on Talbot Street, which is now under new ownership and management. During the renovations they started to explore the extensive underground tunnels that lie beneath the pub. It’s one of the 16 remaining Victorian era pubs of Dublin, in that it retains the design characteristics of the time. […]
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Tivoli Backstage on Francis Street has undergone a small renovation at the front and has now become ‘Stage 19’. It’s a really good space both as a live music venue, and a place for party bookings. We’ve booked the whole downstairs bar for party functions before, and we have to say it’s one of […]
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Sure, you can hand your phone in behind the bar in most pubs and it’ll be perfectly safe. But, there’s another option that means you don’t have to queue up or bother the bar staff when you want to check on your phones battery. A number of pubs in Dublin have a phone charger […]
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It can seem like there aren’t a lot of pubs in Dublin with pool tables, but there are a surprising amount! We’ve put together a list of 23 pubs with tables. Where possible, we’ve put any details we know about the tables. We’ll add to the list as we find more tables. 1. […]
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MVP on Clanbrassil Street have, for such a small place, a very wide range of offerings, such as their delicious cocktails, and their very filling spud boxes. Now, they’ve got a bit of a deal on Wednesday’s for you. They’re doing a charcutterie board with wine for ‘Wine and tapas Wednesday’. The deal is, […]
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Image credit: Gary Teeling We and others in Dublin frequently refer to what could be called city centre ‘locals pubs’. But what is a locals pub? Isn’t every pub a local to someone? Well, it’s hard to define, but we’ll take a stab at it. Generally, as we would see it, locals pubs have […]
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Many publicans around the city today will tell you that they’re really impressed by the level of cooperation between pubs in the same area. Now it seems to be a case of competing areas, rather than pubs down the road from each other trying to share the same business. Well, this level of local […]
read moreWe get so caught up in the ways to get around the Good Friday alcohol prohibition in pubs that we sometimes forget about how Holy Thursday is effected by it. On Holy Thursday, pubs can open and serve alcohol until 11.30pm only. That means all pubs, nightclubs, and bars. Since the night runs into […]
read moreWe give you a quick look around one of the best sun traps in the city, the beer garden in The Church on Jervis Street. Wine, cocktails, beer, and dining al fresco.
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You might not be able to get a pint of beer or a glass of wine on Good Friday, but luckily, Dublin pubs have something else to offer these days too. Sure, they’d love to be selling you a pint, but they can serve you up some very nice food. Here’s a list of pubs […]
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The RHK bars group, who own and operate the Kiltipper Cafe Bar in Tallaght, The Paddocks in Clonee, Murphys of Leixlip, and The Monread in Naas, have developed and are now selling their own craft beer. They teamed up with the Rye River brewery in Celbridge to make their own ‘Hellfire Lager’. It’s a […]
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We’ve recently been very taken with Kavanagh’s on Aughrim Street in Stoneybatter. It’s a classic lounge and bar traditional pub with a very good beer garden (we’ll be covering that at a later time). They’ve just unveiled their newly refurbished function room upstairs. Colour us surprised when we saw how comfy and unique it […]
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Kennedy’s Station Kennedy’s Station is the new room and bar downstairs in Kennedy’s on Westland Row. It’s a pub with longstanding historic connections in the area, and they celebrate this through some of the decoration in the new bar. It’s a very elegantly designed space with multiple private booths, snug-like areas, […]
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