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Cian Duffy

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Mostly writing about Dublin pubs, until the transport operators get accounts so I can moan at them here instead everypubindublin.blogspot.com

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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 01/10/2026
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
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 01/10/2026
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...
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Commercial property for sale in The Ball Alley House, Leixlip Road, Lucan, Co. Dublin, K78X5A0
Commercial property for sale on The Ball Alley House, Leixlip Road, Lucan, Co. Dublin, K78X5A0 is now on Daft.ie.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 17/09/2026
Depending on how long ago you were there, Scraggy replaced their O'Haras tap about a year ago
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 16/09/2026
Worth trying IE01AAAA11111111 if you get someone that insistent
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 16/09/2026
Oliver Reed's Cork local closed in April, and is now for sale minus it's pub licence: www.daft.ie/commercial-p...
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Commercial property for sale in O' Briens, Kerry Lane, Churchtown, Mallow, Co. Cork, P51V058
Commercial property for sale on O' Briens, Kerry Lane, Churchtown, Mallow, Co. Cork, P51V058 is now on Daft.ie.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 16/09/2026
Well, a big problematic part of the Celtic Tiger era was called Anglo.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 16/09/2026
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).
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 12/09/2026
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 Bridge 1859, rugby pub in Ballsbridge
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 05/09/2026
I'd argue with him on stuff, then find him replying on other topics days later; and he even cited me as an "expert" (somehow!) in a planning observation once. His impact in the 80s in particular cannot be overstated
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 01/09/2026
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...
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Quarter of Irish pubs have closed since 2005 - study
A new report shows a rapid decline in the number of pubs in Ireland, with 2,205 premises - or one-in-four - closing their doors since 2005.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 22/08/2026
My notes have the Leslie Inn as the upstairs one. My notes are based on newspapers and Thoms and educated guesswork so are often wrong. Stubbs, Dunells and Nora Barnacles are similar era names I have on the basement
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 22/08/2026
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
A locked door with "Platinum Night Club" and an implausible five stars on a sign above it
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 22/08/2026
And the insane fountain drinks I guess. Bottles and some of the food are also very acceptably priced.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 22/08/2026
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.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 22/08/2026
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
Wetherspoons The Forty Foot signage detailing it as a Free House.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 18/08/2026
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.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 16/08/2026
Few updates to the pub opening pipeline list, including Tailors Hall reopening tomorrow: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...
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Pub Openings/Reopenings/Pipeline 2026
Visiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 10/08/2026
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...
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‘People look over the fence, taking photos’: The pros and cons of living in the Phoenix Park
Declan Bermingham and Terry Moore have encountered homeless people and those bereft of hope in Ireland’s biggest public park
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 08/08/2026
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...
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Revisit 20 years on: N0080 Quinns
Visiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/08/2026
Gays and opening on Sundays. Though I presume the franchise ones here do. Which chain puts bible verses on the packaging? Think it's someone else
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/08/2026
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.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/08/2026
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/08/2026
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.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 01/08/2026
I have committed myself to this life. I'm now back to accuracy in saying I've been to every conventional bar in the county at least.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 01/08/2026
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
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The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Tied pubs? No, we don't have those in Ireland.
11 taps of Heineken products in Jackie's, Dublin.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 31/07/2026
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!
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 25/07/2026
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...
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 24/07/2026
Sometimes there's a damn good reason I've not been back to a pub for two decades: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/07/revi...
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Revisit 21 years on: S2949 The Old Storehouse (visited as Eamonn Dorans)
Visiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 23/07/2026
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...
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Black Church Inn secures record price for unzoned land
The Black Church Inn, a landmark property with access directly on to the M7 motorway at Rathcoole, Co Dublin has been sold at public auction for €3,650,000, or more than three times the €1m guide pric...
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 23/07/2026
The planning application to redevelop the Citibank site on the quays features two hotels, 336 rooms total. The site is between two other hotels.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 15/07/2026
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!
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 13/07/2026
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...
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Supermarket Pubs - decades before Lidl
Visiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 09/07/2026
Ticking off a pub that has sat unopened for almost two years, six days after it actually opened: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/07/1023...
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1023254 The Burton
Visiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 07/07/2026
Of a 2010s rename of a 1989 pub. Does a good job of pretending though
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 07/07/2026
Doing a 20 year revisit to a pub and they're charging EIGHT NINETY FIVE for a Smithwicks.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 06/07/2026
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.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/07/2026
I think this has more 80s pubs www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFAA...
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Pet Shop Boys - So Hard
YouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/07/2026
(good point, will do)
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/07/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCq...
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Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
YouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026
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...
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Pub Openings/Reopenings/Pipeline 2026
Visiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026
Oh, I'm blaming only myself here. Picking up vague impressions meant I was the second customer in Mollys on Francis Street, but I was some period of time off this time.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026
If you don't learn to ignore advertised opening hours in NW Donegal, you either miss out on all the fun; or fail to actually get fed normally
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026
Your hints have caused me to walk across the city for nothing. Well, a consolation Ambush in the Thomas House at least
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026
Nearly two years after it was physically ready, Dublins newest pub is open
The Burton Tavern pub on Duke Street Dublin
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026
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
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 27/06/2026
Plans for its new venue - I haven't got a clue where that could be. I know of various places with permissions that could work for Yamamori itself, but none has any potential for a club.
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 27/06/2026
Yamamori's settlement statement over the Hoxton does not sound good. Club closing by 19/07, and this sounds like the restaurant will be moving by the end of the year. Letting chain hotels "win", even if it may be a chequebook victory, is a net negative for Dublin www.instagram.com/p/DaEDKxLkQLm
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 24/06/2026
One of the more interesting pub-restaurants is closing, but in 6 months time if you still want to visit www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...
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Allta restaurant to serve ‘final menu’ as head chef announces closure plans
Niall Davidson’s fine-dining restaurant will remain open until December 30th
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Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 23/06/2026
Using Merlin to confirm what I've been hearing. It claims this is unlikely for my location at this time of year, but I've heard them in previous years
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