Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 01/10/2026The 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 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 01/10/2026Ball 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...daft.ieCommercial property for sale in The Ball Alley House, Leixlip Road, Lucan, Co. Dublin, K78X5A0Commercial property for sale on The Ball Alley House, Leixlip Road, Lucan, Co. Dublin, K78X5A0 is now on Daft.ie. 020
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 17/09/2026Depending on how long ago you were there, Scraggy replaced their O'Haras tap about a year ago 120
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 16/09/2026Worth trying IE01AAAA11111111 if you get someone that insistent 100
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 16/09/2026Oliver Reed's Cork local closed in April, and is now for sale minus it's pub licence: www.daft.ie/commercial-p...daft.ieCommercial property for sale in O' Briens, Kerry Lane, Churchtown, Mallow, Co. Cork, P51V058Commercial property for sale on O' Briens, Kerry Lane, Churchtown, Mallow, Co. Cork, P51V058 is now on Daft.ie. 021
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 16/09/2026Well, a big problematic part of the Celtic Tiger era was called Anglo. 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 16/09/2026Out 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). 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 12/09/2026The 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. 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 05/09/2026I'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 020
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 01/09/2026The 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...rte.ieQuarter of Irish pubs have closed since 2005 - studyA 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. 061
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 22/08/2026My 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 100
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 22/08/2026Who 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 111
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 22/08/2026And the insane fountain drinks I guess. Bottles and some of the food are also very acceptably priced. 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 22/08/2026The 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. 120
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 22/08/2026When 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 120
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 18/08/2026The 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. 020
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 16/08/2026Few updates to the pub opening pipeline list, including Tailors Hall reopening tomorrow: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...everypubindublin.blogspot.comPub Openings/Reopenings/Pipeline 2026Visiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before. 030
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 10/08/2026Interesting 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...irishtimes.com‘People look over the fence, taking photos’: The pros and cons of living in the Phoenix ParkDeclan Bermingham and Terry Moore have encountered homeless people and those bereft of hope in Ireland’s biggest public park 020
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 08/08/2026The 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...everypubindublin.blogspot.comRevisit 20 years on: N0080 QuinnsVisiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before. 000
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/08/2026Gays 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 230
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/08/2026An 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. 020
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/08/2026The 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. 110
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 01/08/2026I 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. 030
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 01/08/2026New 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 141
Reposted by Cian Duffy The Beer Nut @thebeernut.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Tied pubs? No, we don't have those in Ireland. 2315
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 31/07/2026Was 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! 000
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 25/07/2026I 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...everypubindublin.blogspot.com 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 24/07/2026Sometimes there's a damn good reason I've not been back to a pub for two decades: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/07/revi...everypubindublin.blogspot.comRevisit 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. 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 23/07/2026I 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...independent.ieBlack Church Inn secures record price for unzoned landThe 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... 020
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 23/07/2026The planning application to redevelop the Citibank site on the quays features two hotels, 336 rooms total. The site is between two other hotels. 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 15/07/2026The 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! 030
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 13/07/2026Is 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...everypubindublin.blogspot.comSupermarket Pubs - decades before LidlVisiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before. 020
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 09/07/2026Ticking off a pub that has sat unopened for almost two years, six days after it actually opened: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/07/1023...everypubindublin.blogspot.com1023254 The BurtonVisiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before. 011
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 07/07/2026Of a 2010s rename of a 1989 pub. Does a good job of pretending though 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 07/07/2026Doing a 20 year revisit to a pub and they're charging EIGHT NINETY FIVE for a Smithwicks. 120
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 06/07/2026Anyone 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. 022
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/07/2026I think this has more 80s pubs www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFAA...youtube.comPet Shop Boys - So HardYouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone 000
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 03/07/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VCq...youtube.comPet Shop Boys - SuburbiaYouTube video by PetShopBoys Parlophone 110
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026Updated 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...everypubindublin.blogspot.comPub Openings/Reopenings/Pipeline 2026Visiting every pub in Dublin City & County, and documenting new pubs and those that have gone before. 120
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026Oh, 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. 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026If 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 140
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026Your hints have caused me to walk across the city for nothing. Well, a consolation Ambush in the Thomas House at least 320
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026Nearly two years after it was physically ready, Dublins newest pub is open 020
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 02/07/2026Three 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 120
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 27/06/2026Plans 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. 020
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 27/06/2026Yamamori'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/DaEDKxLkQLminstagram.comInstagramCreate an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you. 130
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 24/06/2026One of the more interesting pub-restaurants is closing, but in 6 months time if you still want to visit www.irishtimes.com/food/restaur...irishtimes.comAllta restaurant to serve ‘final menu’ as head chef announces closure plansNiall Davidson’s fine-dining restaurant will remain open until December 30th 010
Cian Duffy @everypubindublin.ie · 23/06/2026Using 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 030