Cian Duffy

The pre Christmas rush to get new bars open means I've been able to nail down a few opening dates for the pub pipeline: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

The bar in the National Stadium feels like if your primary school nativity play sold cans.

Found that I'd missed a licenced premises that I first drank in 19 years ago from my writeups. It's a fairly obscure type of licence, which I explain a bit about in the writeup: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/10/retr...

A planning application has gone in to convert the long closed, once squatted and very derelict Nearys Hotel on Parnell Street to housing; but retaining and extending its also long closed bar in the process.

In dire need of blog content, I have now visited about half of all the licenced premises in Athlone. No, I will not agree to doing Every Pub In Ireland: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-su...

First "new" pub opening in Dublin in a month is tomorrow - Poddles Mills replacing the KCR House: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

Sunday opening hours seem to be a suggestion not a rule in Athlone, but thats useful with an 11:30 checkout time

Sensible rules in Walshs in Athlone

Still Athlone. Next pub has a seat blocker.

Back in to the exceptionally retro pub in Athlone. There isn't actually much dead branding in here, but there's a bit

Documenting the continual creep upwards in licenced premises in Dublin, but warning that most of the new ones aren't pubs - it's the 2025/6 licencing year review, of sorts: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/10/2025...

Not been much activity in terms of pub openings for the past while, so I've ended up putting some speculation and unconfirmed stuff on the pipeline: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

There is a huge queue for the 'spoons on Abbey Street. Please let Dublin publicans realise that customers still exist, and going ever more premium is not the answer. Some of these may yet be rescued.

How have a not at all representative sample of Irish pubs fared over the past quarter century? Badly, if they're in Munster; anyway: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

The replacement pub unit for Bakers Corner - they actually built it, for once - is up for rent now. Not huge and a slightly awkward shape: www.daft.ie/commercial-p...

This has replaced the not even ten months open The Stapleton. Presumably protecting the VCC brand as the building is for sale.

The Vintage Cocktail Club seems to have somewhat abruptly moved to Powerscourt Townhouse, according to their socials/website. Not sure what's going on with the old venue.

In an extremely unusual outcome, planning has been submitted to convert *from* a bar (the closed 'ohana) *to* office space on Harcourt Street.

The extension of the Marlin hotel in to the once exceptionally derelict set of buildings at 23/24 Aungier Street is going to have a bar, Rafters. The hotel bar isn't much use for non residents, but this is likely to be very open to them

Ball Alley House pub in Lucan is listed for sale. Rare case of a pub in family ownership for nearly 100 years going to market. www.daft.ie/commercial-p...

Oliver Reed's Cork local closed in April, and is now for sale minus it's pub licence: www.daft.ie/commercial-p...

Out of all of Reach PLCs terrible regional "news" sites, they close the only one that ever actually cited me rather than just nicking a story (Galway Beo).

The last pub in Dublin where my most recent visit was under 18 (by three weeks). New names, new owner, and over two decades between visits. It isn't great.

The 1% figure for Dublin is accurate in so far as that many licences remain. It doesn't reflect closures being masked by new hotels and restaurants using pub licences for an easier life - and a handful of new pubs. About 15% of pubs in Dublin have closed over this time www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Who would have thought the last remnants of the three pubs in Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre would be the door down to the basement nightclub. The door to the lift to the upstairs bar, the last to close by many years, is now an ice cream shop

The baffling thing of the IMC Cinema chain having some of the cheapest pints in Dublin - €6 for whatever Heineken Ireland lager keg they have - continues.

When spoons opened up initially here, their Free House tags were mostly pointless. Now with so many pubs having an all bar one tap Heineken, Diageo or C&C lineup its starting to feel like we need a term for bars that sell a range of product, without referring to rare-outside-Cork and dead pub ties

The oddly named D One 5 bar in Castleknock (in D15, but the phrasing of the name is what's odd) closed on Sunday, 11 months exactly after opening. That unit is turning in to a bit of an ejector seat of a pub, with five names in the last 20 years.

Few updates to the pub opening pipeline list, including Tailors Hall reopening tomorrow: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

Interesting piece in the Irish Times on those who live in the Phoenix Park, other than the politicians (and patients in St Marys). One of my great grandfathers was the head horticulturist and lived in Klondike Lodge when working, and a gatehouse in retirement. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...

The long-awaited reopening of Quinns gets a writeup, because it had been 20 years since I was last there; not because I'd never been there before: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/08/revi...

An AI slop poster for a pub 2.4km from Croke Park is telling people to drop in before the "Bon Jovy" gig and that its 2 minutes walk away. Try 30.

The site of the recently closed Pillar Bar has painters in, and recruitment signs for a Kitty O'Sheas. Whether this is the Dublin founded Irish bar chain coming home, or someone else using the same name, I don't yet know.

New Maldron hotel in Drumcondra has a huge, south facing beer garden. It doesn't have sufficient bar staff for a quiet afternoon even though, and my pint cost NINE EURO

Tied pubs? No, we don't have those in Ireland.

Was trying to figure out roughly when an old home movie of my Grandad was taken - was given a copy of it, wasn't one of my own - and having little luck until he happened to specifically mention Liverpool beating Man United in the Charity Shield the previous night. 13th August 2001 it is then!

I don't usually write up revisits unless it's been over 18 years since the last time; or I'm likely to be back. This is only almost one of those; but its such a huge difference it's worth writing up: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/07/revi...

Sometimes there's a damn good reason I've not been back to a pub for two decades: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/07/revi...

I don't think 3.65m has been spent on this for the pub, which failed to rent at 40k/year recently... formerly Brendan Grace's own venue, changes in drinking and entertainment habits have doomed places like this: www.independent.ie/business/com...

The planning application to redevelop the Citibank site on the quays features two hotels, 336 rooms total. The site is between two other hotels.

The Tom Stanley shop in Connolly has "thank you for supporting Irish" signage up, beside CCTV notices saying the data controller is WH Smith and with a UK phone number. At least one of these things does not belong!

Is Lidl's The Middle Ale the first time a supermarket opened a pub to get an off-licence? Not by over half a century it isn't. This and other pub-supermarket info in the latest posting: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/07/supe...

Ticking off a pub that has sat unopened for almost two years, six days after it actually opened: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/07/1023...

Doing a 20 year revisit to a pub and they're charging EIGHT NINETY FIVE for a Smithwicks.

Anyone looking for something to do in an air-conditioned conference centre this weekend, I'll be involved in running Brickfeile, a Lego show, in the Citynorth in Gormanston on Friday and Saturday. All the money raised goes to Fairybricks who provide Lego sets to kids hospitals wards.

Updated the pub pipeline list for the opening of the Burton, partial opening of Quinns; the future opening of Sally Macs on Baggot Street and a few other bits: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

Nearly two years after it was physically ready, Dublins newest pub is open

Three names in three years for the former Larry Murphys pub on Baggot Street; which is to reopen as Sally Macs, going on recruitment ads for staff