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OK, so my selection of the most beautiful-looking pubs in Dublin, no surprises or left-field choices, I could only limit the list to 13, so will do the first 5 tonight and the rest tomorrow night:
13. The Swan, Aungier St
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Anyone else struggling with all this shite? I am, and I've no problem admitting it. All the joy has been sucked out of life, and it's a real grind to wake up every day lacking motivation, nothing to look forward to or be excited about.
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Alexis Mac Allister for Jordan Henderson must be one of the biggest upgrades of all time.
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My heart: Stevie G is going to pull off a miracle on Sunday.
My head:
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Irish train journeys are never dull. Fella just leapt over the wall at Kilkenny station in full tuxedo and ran onto my carriage, sweat lashing out of him. Sits down and asks me 'where is this train going?'
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There's a wonderful old sweet shop in Navan called Oriel. Ireland was full of places like this when I was a kid.
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Cork has a nicer atmosphere than Dublin, people are nicer, and it's basically just better craic.
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There's a Palestinian restaurant in Cork called Izz Cafe, and the food is incredibly tasty.
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Mam: 'Are you sure you're OK, do you need me to come up there'?
Me: 'You know the whole point is I'm supposed to be isolating?'
Mam: 'But I'm your mother'.
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I will never not be amazed that this very old fishing tackle shop still exists in the heart of Dublin's tourist central.
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Still only €4.50 for a pint in The Auld Triangle. And you adapt to the odours remarkably quickly. It's a Dublin institution.
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What a sad little prick, going around filming people just getting on with their daily lives and causing no harm to anybody.
This is Dublin. The Irish fought for independence from the British, only to voluntarily give up control of their own capital.
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Paying €9 for the barman to run to the local takeaway to fetch you some chicken wings you don’t want feels absolutely ludicrous. Probably because it is absolutely ludicrous.
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Chatting to an Argentian fella there, was telling me how hard it is for foreigners to make friends with Irish people - the friendliness is always at a surface level, they never really let you in, invite you to things, etc.
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Fish spice box. And Chips in Dungarvan is, I'm convinced, the finest take away in Ireland. They even serve wine, like I'm in some civilised southern European country.
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My favourite pub front in Dublin, an easy choice, it just has to be The Palace.
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Granted, you'll probably need to be power washed and do a spell in quarantine afterwards, but at €4.50, there surely can't be a cheaper pint anywhere in Dublin than the Auld Triangle.
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No list of Dublin's most beautiful pubs would be complete without mentioning Slattery's in Rathmines. A pint here before going next door to The Stella is an afternoon well spent.
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Beer gardens aren't really my bag, but Bonobo in Smithfield has one of the nicest beer gardens in Dublin.
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What a find, Frankie O'Brien's in Athy, saloon doors separating the grocery store from the bar. Places like this are my Holy Grail.
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I'd imagine the Auld Triangle is pulling out all the stops today, maybe even a bottle of Domestos.
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Whilst the amateur Christmas drinkers squeeze into packed pubs around Grafton St, we have upstairs in the Lord Ed all to ourselves.
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Chez Damo, it's tiny, and has absolutely nothing special about it, but it feels perfect for me, I adore it.
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Credit to my local,
@ClonliffeHouse
, keeping the pint at €5. Must be one of the cheapest pints in the country now, let alone Dublin.
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Pints with your best mates, in Grogans, on a school night, and you stay longer than planned. Nowhere in the world is better than Ireland for these moments.
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As promised, a thread of my 10 favourite pubs or bars on the northside, not 'the best', just the ones I'm most affectionate about:
10. The Goose Tavern.
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Kinsale is probably the ponciest town in Ireland, I fit right in.
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Will start my promised list of what I consider the 12 most beautiful-looking pubs in Dublin tomorrow evening, I take these lists too seriously, overthink them, but it's safe to assume Fallons will be on there.
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Of the many Dublin pub closures in my time, Conways is one of those that saddened me most. Loved going for pints here. Also featured in The Snapper.
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Going native already, Beamish in Cork is different level. If you were a bit of a wanker, and I am, you would describe it as having 'coffee notes.'
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Who needs hotels when the classic Irish B&B experience is so much nicer.
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My second-favourite Dublin pub front, the one and only Long Hall.
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My ideal of how to mark my birthday, quiet pint on the high stool in Cleary's.
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I'll say it again and again, but Cleary's on Amiens Street is special.
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There's a perception of The Auld Triangle as a rough, tough, working class dive, if anything, it's kind of bohemian, draws a very eclectic mix, and nobody is ever judged or made feel unwelcome.
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I'm calling this one for Beamish, the coffee notes do it for me, indeed a good pint of Beamish in Cork is also a superior stout to Guinness.
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An underrated Dublin pub front, indeed, an underrated pub, the Confession Box.
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Unpopular opinion, but I like the wild flower planting at the front of Trinity.
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My next pub thread will probably be on my favourite Dublin pub exteriors, or as I call them, shop fronts. Kehoe's will inevitably feature.
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For a village the size of Borris to have one great pub is impressive, to have two is ridiculous. This is O'Shea's, where you can still order a box of nails or can of WD-40 with your pint.
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Had to think about the final one on my shortlist of 10 of Dublin's most beautiful pubs, but in the end it had to be Fallon's in The Coombe.
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Have received comments recently to the effect that I promote a Disneyfied version of Ireland, ignoring all the bad stuff. First, the places I post about do actually exist. And second, there's more than enough misery on here already without me adding to it.
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Cork has the highest concentration of good pubs of any city in the world, but I'd be surprised if any surpass
@callanansbar
as my favourite in the city, everything about it is perfect.
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Nothing says League of Ireland like eating curry chips off the lid of a bin. Living the dream.
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Tempted to delete my earlier tweet about Izz Cafe just to stop the flood of pollution into my mentions from racists and scum, but no, fuck them, I'll just go off Twitter for a day or two 'til they've fucked off, see you soon!
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Haven't seen Dublin hopping like this since the pre-covid days, great to see.
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Pubs in January are so much nicer than in December. The amateurs have vacated the public realm again, the quasi-religious attention seekers are doing that Dry January nonsense, you can sit back and read a book again with your pint.
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If I have to pick one Dublin pub, it's always going to be Cleary's. History, beautiful decor, sound, old school clientele, brilliant bar men - it's the gold standard.
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The Long Hall is, if anything, becoming even more beautiful through sympathetic refurbishment.
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Someone mentioned the Northside Nirvana in a tweet earlier, The Auld Triangle, so I had to pop in. Amazingly, you can still get a pint for €4.50.
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Pre-cinema pint in Slattery's before going next door to The Stella - pretty much my ideal Saturday afternoon.
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Completely subjective of course, so this is just my top 20 favourite pubs in Dublin, not necessarily the best:
1. The Gravediggers
2. Grogans
3. Nearys
4. The Long Hall
5. The Royal Oak, Kilmainham
6. Fallons
7. The Big Romance
8. The Lord Edward
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Love these classic shop fronts you still find in the west of Ireland.
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Love that the passport officials in Dublin Airport still thank you by name. Never experienced this anywhere else in the world.
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When other men are thinking about the Roman Empire, I'm thinking about Hopkins Bar in Enniscrone.
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Now that I'm on a theme of Dublin pub fronts, I randomly passed Mulligans on my way home this evening.
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Good to see Quinns in Drumcondra making a comeback, anything would be better than the eyesore there currently.
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I take basically the same photo at 7.30 every Thursday morning on my walk into work. Beautiful to observe the gradual change of light every week.
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Claire Byrne will have an orgasm live on air when this new variant makes it's way here.
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The gaff. Small, modest, but I love it so much, we're made for each other.
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No, I'm not back in the Aeolians, this is Wicklow's Glen Beach cliff walk.
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Grafton Street on a Thursday night. It would break your heart.
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My parents, whilst exercising sensible precautions, have always insisted on us carrying on like a normal family at Christmas, not living in fear of covid. My dad's view is that life is too short. Their choice, not mine, and I admire them for it.
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Found a pub that serves pints AND let's you use the jacks. In Dublin, this feels like winning the Lotto.
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Couldn't possibly come to Cork and not mention the Welcome Inn. The early house is almost extinct now in Ireland, and this place is an absolute gem.
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Lovely Good Friday hike around Glendalough today, Wicklow is a special county.
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A well hidden northside gem that will be unfamiliar to many, The Goose Tavern.
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Public service announcement: Cumiskey's on Upper Dominick St does a pint of Beamish that's almost Cork standard, for €4.50.
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The worst thing about this 8pm rule is that the pleasures of afternoon drinking, the sanctuary of solitary, contemplative pint men such as myself, has been discovered by the masses.
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I've gone from being considered extremely left wing in my youth to very right wing in middle age. In the meantime, my views haven't changed one iota.
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My own photo, and even I'm taken aback at how beautiful this is.
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Ordered a glass of plonk in my local in Bergamo, and they brought me this long slate of free food.
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The cinema in Buncrana remains my favourite single thing about Donegal.
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Wonderful crowd scenes in Copenhagen. Looking forward to Ireland running trials next weekend of 100 people in Phoenix Park, in bubbles.
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And that concludes my Sicilian adventure, hard to believe I've only been here 8 days, it has felt epic. As always, many thanks for the fun interactions and kind comments and feedback, this was my favourite photo of the trip.
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