Yearly Archives: 2020

As patrons are increasingly desiring to sit outside and have a drink, every publican with a tiny amount of outdoor space is scrambling to make use of it. There’s new tables being put into car parks and on-street seating has been increased around the city. As outside space is becoming more and more desirable, it […]

Dublin, Ireland may not have ranked high in the cities of the world involved in Cold War intrigue prior to the fall of the Soviet Union. But a curious story involving the expulsion of Soviet embassy staff from Ireland in 1983 shows that Ireland was not exempt from spying and intelligence gathering by the USSR. […]

Following on from a very successful launch and implementation of their local and then nationwide craft beer deliveries, 57 The Headline are delving further into something they know very well about. 57 The Headline on Clanbrassil Street will be known to lots of people in better times as a place to go for dozens of […]

Radiohead have been keeping us entertained on Thursday evenings by streaming replays of concerts from the last few decades in Dublin, Berlin, and Buenos Aires. It got us thinking that we remembered hearing a reference to Radiohead having played their first ever gig in a city centre Dublin pub in 1993. After a bit of […]

Creating a true Irish identity in one of the thousands of Irish pubs around the world is a difficult thing to do, but we’ve found 3 that took the rather extreme option of packing up an existing pub and shipping it across Europe, Africa, and America to make people feel right at home. Bubbles O’Leary’s. […]

2 years ago I organised it with Hugh Hourican of The Boars Head pub on Capel Street that I’d be the first person in Ireland to have a (legal) pint in Ireland on Good Friday following the reversal of the prohibition of selling alcohol on the day that stood for 90 years. That seems an […]

Over the last few weeks we, like you, have been mulling over how best to continue on with life, to have a routine, and to keep up some semblance of normality. For us, this has been quite hard to grapple with considering our chief goal here at Publin is to advise you about pubs that […]

Join us for an online lock in in an authentically Irish pub. We must temporarily give up this institution of Irish life, so we’re keeping them in your consciousness by hosting a live meet up where we share a drink and some chats while I show you around one of Dublin’s best loved pubs, exploring […]

You might be forgiven for thinking, as we did for many years, that Rody (pronounced ‘Roadie’) Boland’s pub in Rathmines was named after the current owner or comes from a previous owner on the same location. The real story however is much more complicated than that. Not only is the pub named after a man […]

We’re all being encouraged to reduce our household waste, to consume ethically and to be mindful of the amount of plastic we use once and throw out. And rightfully so. It can be difficult to change habits, especially when a lot of the decision making about what we buy is taken out of our hands, […]

When The Big Romance opened their doors in 2018 they trumpeted loudly their plans to associate themselves with music in a big way. This meant a whopper sound system, a commitment to playing vinyl in the bar, and to having musicians playing regular events. This commitment was exemplified by the name that the bar took. […]