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

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

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...

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

I think this is my first tick to ever be featured on At Your Service: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/06/epit...

Commencement notice has gone in for the renovation of Smyths pub in Donabate - this is to reopen as a pub and restaurant after this renovation

Back on visiting every pub (and other equivalent licence) in The Rosses, which gets my first ever Producers Retail (On) Licence: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/06/epit...

I don't remember this tap head ever being in this pub I've been drinking in for 21 years, so I'm guessing there's a very significant storeroom clear out going on

Quinns is actually open - ish. Just the wine bar section, but you can finally actually drink there again for the first time in many years. Pub pipeline list updated: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

Going back to the replacement of a fondly remembered pub is always risky, in terms of expectations. This one is fine, actually: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/06/revi...

A fairly famous internet/cookbook celeb chef is on Arranmore currently, and eating in the same pub I am. I hope he enjoys Sysco chicken and coleslaw.

When the NTA wont spring for a stop sign, but did have some plastic document folders lying around

It's Bloomsday! Lets recall how those James Joyce Pub Awards things you see inside or outside pubs mean nothing, and can be bought second hand anyway: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-...

A 1998 Evening Herald Dublin Docklands pub crawl, chronologically impossible then and actually impossible now due to how many of the premises have closed down: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/06/1998...

Added the recently un-hoardinged The Wellington to the upcoming pubs list. Quite a few with expected openings in June so it could be a busy few weeks (if I hadn't already been to basically all of them in their original guises!) everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

Sunday Business Post archives are now online, and turning up some pub/beer content I'd not landed on before; like the 1998 Independent Brewers Festival in the Porterhouse. Only winning brewery still operating unchanged is Whitewater, though; showing the high failure rate of early Irish craft beer

Weird moment in a "normal" pub (with 5 craft taps) of looking down the bar and seeing more pints of Ambush than anything else. Nearly everyone's back on it, at least here.

Bank Holiday blog post out of normal schedule (not that I always have something to post on schedule these days) - the odd 80s and 90s trend of putting thatched roofs on suburban pubs: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

@birdwatchireland.bsky.social definitely one, possibly two corncrake calls audible on Arranmore tonight. Didn't hear any last year but I did in 2024

One of the most depressing things it is possible to do is read the top comments on Youtube on any 90s/00s trance track. So many tales of lost partners or parents or other loved ones that were fans of a specific song.

Fairly surprising change of theme for the very well known Captain Americas on Grafton Street - closing this weekend to become the Grafton Tavern. www.thejournal.ie/captain-amer...

Not entirely sure I can count this as a reopening! www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

None of my local pubs were showing the Man United/Brighton match today, so I ended up getting a day pass to Sky Sports on Now. Significantly cheaper all-in to watch at home with beer from the shop at the end of the road. The one simple trick publicans don't want you to know about!

Another theatre, another bar. Almost done as goes city centre theatres now: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/05/n161...

Last chance to see, in its current form, a pub many people are very wary of going to. I have visited it, like every other accused rough pub in the county. www.instagram.com/p/DYr5RSKDXfL

I've tracked down 28 licenced premises on offshore islands in Ireland - pubs and hotels, not restaurants or clubs. I've already drunk in 8 of them. Have I just found myself an even more expensive and complex challenge than completing Dublin? everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/05/isla...

Another theatre, this one with a more comfortable to use bar than most: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/05/s366...

Ticking off a vast pubstaurant in the sky: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/05/1022...

The new Maldron by Croke Park hasn't got it's bar licence yet. But they were very direct about why they couldn't serve me, rather than making stuff up. I'll return in a few weeks.

Ticking off a very long standing licence I incorrectly thought wasn't publicly accessible: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/05/n013...

One of the more obscure licenced premises in Dublin, where I had an enjoyable... some drink, I'm not going to check my notes; and which really doesn't need to close for an EU presidency considering it didn't last time

Just put a trail of pints of Bass leading to a large net, that'll let you physically stop him www.irishexaminer.com/news/politic...

The Maldron at Croke Park brings to 7 the number of pub/bar openings I've tracked in 2026, and the first actually new everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

Third time in England in twelve months, and every time is like stepping back to 2008 for mobile data. How are the same network operators who can be competent in Ireland so so bad here?

Louis Fitzgerald Group is promoting a "Heritage Pub Trail" in Dublin, consisting entirely of their own venues; one of which is barely 3 years old. And is damn close to being the worst pub I've ever been in at that.

Why I've decided to drop three licences off my target list. Post is safe for work I guess, but the bars are not: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/05/actu...

Bambino, the pizza place, teasing a "big announcement" in a few weeks. I wonder is it anything to do with a company with related ownership holding the licence of the former Soup2/Taproom47/The Tap pub on North King Street for the last few months...

There were two attempts at establishing tatty English chain pubs in Dublin before Tim Martin sort lf successfully did it, although that still took him two goes. Read about Berni and Toby (and Tim): everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/05/toby...

The baffling 1980s regulations that have lead to so many restaurants being licenced as pubs: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

Frank Ryan's music choices will forever remain as baffling as the lighting choices..Van Morrison in to Agnelli & Nelson - El Nino.

Have seen two bars today with uncovered, lit Franciscan Well tap heads on them. I'm not sure I dare risk seeing if any still have ancient kegs attached.

Returning to a pub 19 years, and a fundamental change in format, later: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/05/revi...

Ticking off a pubstaurant built for photo taking. So I didn't take any: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/04/1022...