


Top 5 Christmas Pubs 2022
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Christmas – it comes earlier and earlier each year. And arriving earlier alongside it is that time-honoured tradition that me and mine call CCP season. CCPs, not to be confused with The Chinese Communist Party are Cosy Christmas Pints. Though…

Noctor’s: Sheriff Street Lower
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Coming toward the latter end of 2021, we’d had it fully planned and spec’ed out for a good while. It had been a slack year for the cause with all concerned in the DublinByPub ranks – assorted big life changes and a worldwide pandemic…

The Last Night in The Flowing Tide
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The news came through in the same way that news like this often does – via rumour and hearsay. A friend of a friend’s workmate was “in there the other night and the barman said it’s closing in a week, getting turned into a hotel.”
I…

Some new (very old) whiskies in three Dublin Pubs.
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For an hour and a half, I drank liquor so rare
You’d swear it was made by the gods in the air
Out of nectars and honey, and lotuses fair.
And it freshly came over the border.
When I came to write this little blog post, it was…

Kavanagh’s: New St.
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Verbose and all, as we’d like to be about every Dublin pub that we visit – sometimes there’s just no escaping the plain and the ordinary from our experiences. And not that we'd like to label Kavanagh’s of New Street as such, it just…