Gills pub on the NCR is an absolute balls to tick off with astoundingly limited opening hours, but this annual (at least it seems to be) event is an easy way around that: www.instagram.com/p/DVrSZH6jMl5/

Drop Dead Twice now have toilets so complicated to find that Tim Martin will send a training mission here

Ambush, lads, back on; etc. The Thomas House has two Ambush taps on the same bar like conventional pubs have two Guinness taps

Didn't expect it would be Plexamp to tell me The Best Album Ever Made (for trance fans) was released 20 years ago today; which has made me feel a million years old as I bought it new. Record label and artist have ignored the anniversary even though they did a big 15th www.discogs.com/release/6342...

Brewdog Dublin one of only 11 bars in the chain to survive the pre-pack administration and sale to Tilray today.

I have had no Normal Pubs left to do in Dublin for many months now, so today I did the two Kildare towns near me. Nothing exceptional but nothing bad, and a single blog post will come in the future per town just like others I've (sometimes only tried to) completed

The wonders of fashion cycles - doorman on a bar in Leixlip opening the door as I arrive in clothes that would have got me refused at the same pub 20 years ago. And yet its the same stuff I've always worn.

Drop Dead Twice on Francis Street, which was burnt out in Summer 2022, appears to have reopened (permanently) last night. They had a temporary reopening in the rebuilt building with no interior for Pride last year, and did takeout sales over Christmas.

Booked my annual "commemoration of the end of the world" trip to Rascals, on the anniversary of the last proper trip out before the pandemic in 2020. Gone back the same day most years (they've been open) since, but it hasn't portended doom any other time.

I didnt think Manchester Airport could possibly sink lower in my opinion of it, but somehow, they manage to outdo themselves every single time

~20 years ago, I worked on a satellite music TV station which frequently played a eurodance cover of Because The Night by an act called Jan Wayne. I do wonder if the director of Heated Rivalry saw that video before putting some exceptionally similar scenes in to episode 4.

There is a Shelbourne sticker in this pub in Manchester. And the damage suggests enough other patrons with anti Shels animosity

Brewdog Manchester seems to have the same playlist as iradio North East did on launch. Just waiting for Kate Nash - Foundations. Royseven might be a bit too niche for England.

There was a story of someone worried they'd lost 12k on Brewdog EFP recently, but even as a rare visitor, its the cheapest discount card I ever bought. Random free pint today. Made the entire value back in one go once on the old early morning discount for breakfast and pints for 3.

45 years of always wondering if a premises has enough exits. 45 years of never being sure you're safe in a pub or club. 45 years of FF connected individuals getting away with everything. www.rte.ie/news/2026/02...

Building/moving in beside an existing nightclub, then whining about the noise to get its licence taken off it is common in London, so now we get a hotel named after a bit of London trying the same thing here: www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/co...

The planning app that should lead to the renovation and reopening Smyths pub in Donabate has been approved. A growing town with only one pub currently, there should be demand for a second to return.

Processing the Revenue liquor licence file update for this month and I note that the former Soup2/Taproom 47 premises has been re-licenced to a company connected to Bambino pizza. Their Smithfield branch may yet happen in a different premises (was originally going to be in the old Token)

Hot Press Magazine are having their 50th anniversary concert tonight in Dublin - but not in their own music venue. Because it didn't survive three years, let alone 50: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2023/06/hot-...

Dundrum SC is splitting up two of its *three* vacant pub-licenced units in to smaller units - former PMacs and former Donnybrook Fair. No word on whether any of them, or the Harvey Nicks bar, will be opening as pubs/bars again: www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

A "Roxy Ball Room", yet another bar-with-games format, is to open in the old Central Bank. I assume this is replacing the previously announced Bounce ping-pong bar and not a case of both of them coming.

Somehow, after decades of them being sold here, I'm in my first Tesla taxi. And its fragile plastic shite. This would put you off owning one if you didn't already own an EV

I've only ever seen Lidl own brand spirits being resold once before today - a corner shop near Lisbon airport. But now I can add a suburban Dublin pub with an open bottle of Western Gold on the shelf.

No new pubs for me this month, but a reasonable mix of long term revisits and regulars made up where I did get to: everypubindublin.blogspot.com/2026/02/revi...

Those craft pints your local pub charges you more for than the big brewery stuff are almost always cheaper for them to buy. Pubs have to stop the craft tax ripoff if they want people to move away from the duopoly

The not at all suspicious lockstep price rise happens www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Two pub-licenced restaurants in suburban Dublin closed over the weekend - Donnybrook Fair in Dundrum (along with the shop side of the business), and the last TGI Fridays in Ireland out in Blanchardstown.

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!