I worked for Ergo a good while ago now. John was a decent guy who knew the name of every staff member, in a quickly growing company. www.independent.ie/business/tec...

In a move counter to industry trends, two suburban nightclubs are reopening in Dublin - K2 at the Summit in Howth and the basement venue of the Donaghmede Inn. Suburban clubs are almost entirely gone, with city centre late venues thin on the ground too.

I'm far, far, closer to Kyren WilIsons age than John Higgins age. But I'd be quite happy for Higgins to recover and win this for proving that age isn't that important.

Two uncollected kegs outside Underdog. My city centre local, so to speak, closed late last year and while there is some work going on inside, it's not going to be the same no matter what opens

Bar chain known for craft beer doing really nice custom mats with Guinnesss is a little surprising, but they are really nice.

Unexpected side effect of getting older is that Frank Ryan's is even darker inside.

History repeats itself. 2026 www.independent.ie/regionals/ga... / 1983 www.rte.ie/archives/201...

The new Eclective (former Press Up) venue replacing Farrier & Draper - The Stapleton - actually opened before Christmas, but with so little marketing that I only found out today. They've definitely binned McKillen's 1000 Names for Girls book for picking new venue names from anyway.

Irish Distillers adding to the Dry Entire 2026 movement. I expect Heineken to come along shortly: www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

Video update on the Connemara Railway at Maam Cross features their railway car bar, the first new licenced Railway Refreshment Rooms in decades, and the first ever at a heritage railway (Oakfield Park being a miniature railway) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQhm...

Planning has been granted to convert the long closed, but still licensed, Millennium pub on Parkgate Street to a 53 bed tourist hostel. Unlike lots of other pubs adding rooms, this will not retain any bar area and the licence will presumably finally be sold off.

Diageo looking to encourage Dry February, Dry March etc with these latest price rises: www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...

I was only able to extract the clearly new entries from the Revenue licence register this month due to corrupted data, but there's two new "pubs" in Dublin. Neither is really a pub... everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/01/janu...

Rolling over the pub pipeline page to 2026 expected openings, with a handful that might make it by the end of January: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

Went for a walk down the South Quays today stopping at every open pub I passed. Which was three. But 120 years ago, it would have been 20: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-qu...

Drop Dead Twice, still rebuilding from the fire that gutted the pub, has been doing hatch sales to outdoor seating on Francis Street for the past week or so, and is continuing until NYE, 5-9pm. Worth dropping by for support.

Only closed for a year and a half and has fallen in to quite some disrepair in that time period. Hopefully it reopens as what it was

As use of function rooms and nightclubs in pubs ebbs away, are guest bedrooms taking over? Probably not, but there's a few being added: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/12/inni...

Drinking in a Dublin bar, in Zurich. The James Joyce has the interior fittings from the original Jury's Hotel, demolished for the central bank in the early 70s

Díon is now open, so I think there's possibly only two more pre-Christmas pub openings likely - Token on Wed and probably Dollys in Terenure, though I might have missed something. 2025 list of what opened and may be coming is here, 2026 one to come: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

Visiting Dublin's newest pub, again - and I'll probably be able to reuse this line next week too: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/12/no-n...

Visiting what was Dublin's Newest Pub, but isn't anymore, only a few weeks later: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/12/no-n...

Looks like the bar in Bolands Mills - Daphni - may be open, or else their photos have a lot of random extras in them. On the night I finally tick off the new Wright's, ensuring I remain incomplete for normal pubs/bars in Dublin!

What appears to be an AI re-parsing of Wikipedia is burning up the planet to give us such exceptionally useful content as this

Pub opening pipeline updated with the unexpected news that Token is reopening - in another premises which surely has to be the old Lagoona: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

Limerick and Clare are now added to the list, getting me to 22/32 on the Adrian Chiles equivalent "pint in every county" challenge. Various midlands and half of NIs counties still undone: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/02/32-p...

The former Headline bar on Clanbrassil Street is going to reopen as the Libertine Lounge shortly - hiring staff with a November date mentioned

My local-away-from-home, as such, is no more. Only to return somewhere else in future, I hope; and more specifically hopefully Paddy et al have interim options ASAP.

Tonights Graham Norton Show is where I finally realised that Rosamund Pike is not actually Rosamunde Pilcher, who would be 101 now and not really up to the auld award winning acting

East Wall gets its second bar, ever: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/11/1022...

There's a Dublin pub claiming it's going to start charging 50c/transaction fee for using card payments. Card surcharges have been illegal for *seven years* already; and 50c on a ~€7 transaction is obscene anyway. If you don't want to take card payments, just don't.

The impending death of MTV music channels has to be seen through a lens of a loss of why some watched music video stations. 20 years ago when I worked for one, countless guys a night spent £1 on texting in to see half a second of tit and a second of arse in a Rank1 video.

Just how many pubs actually are there in Dublin? Nobody knows, but I'll make a better guess than most: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/10/how-...

My pub map is missing most of Dublin's famed nightclubs of the 60s to 90s. That's because they, and about 1000 premises selling alcohol now, are not actually licenced as pubs: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/10/not-...

I spent quite a lot of the 25 years this covers working in either music TV or radio stations; and yet somehow I only know about 60% of the songs on this list. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Had a Simpsons "It'll Happen To You" moment there, on realising that the radio station in the doctors waiting room playing Faithless and BBE is actually RTÉ Gold.

October's Revenue update adds one new premises in Dublin, but 7 are gone since last year (none open recently): everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/10/octo...

This months Revenue register is the last for this licencing year, and brings us to 145 premises that have been removed from the register in the 15 years of records I have

Processing the October Revenue licence file update, but there's something of interest outside of Dublin pubs in it - Diageo's Newbridge brewery is now licenced.

Metrolink is approved, so the Brian Boru in Glasnevin will be no more in a bit - but there's been about 30 Dublin other pubs CPOed for roads, housing, a convention centre and even a library over the years: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2020/05/du.h...

My personal inflation tracker - the Beamish in Cumiskeys - has now reached new heights at €5.

I still have no completely new pub visits to write up, so here's another place I've revisited for the first time in 20 years: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/09/revi...

Few pre-Christmas opening dates confirmed for new bars in Dublin, although there's plenty more that might make it: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/p/pub-openin...

Run out of pubs to go to? Just start again! Well, maybe not - but I will vaguely try revisit the places I know I've not been to in 18 or more years: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/09/aged...

An actual licence tick emerges amongst the random time-fillers I've been posting lately: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/09/n120...

Two new pub licences appear on this month's Revenue register. Both are already ticked off: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/09/reve...

The last - until I visit some of the remaining ~30ish places - pub licence writeup: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/08/1017...

A pub reopening screwed up my "having been to every normal pub" status. So I visited it: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/08/s025...

I'm now on to the Serious Theatre stage of sweeping up the final pub licences: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2025/08/1001...

IMC Cinemas continue to have some of the cheapest pints in Dublin, at about 6 quid. But it's only one (lager) tap per cinema and you need to be watching a movie. Almost feels weird to have cheap-ish refreshments in a cinema.