Sad Story of The Rushes Inn. On my way from Kilkenny to Dublin the other day, I decided that as I was in no great rush, to eschew the M9 motorway and to take the ‘old road’, the N78. Taking these old roads can be an evocative experience. Old memories of the many times you…
Stumbled across this abandoned pub on my travels in Co. Wexford. Can’t place the area exactly, but it is somewhere between Carne, Lady’s Island and Tagoat. Sad to see what looked like a once thriving road-house business go to this state. But unfortunately this has been happening on a huge scale across the country for…
According to an article published in the Financial Times newspaper in January 2012, ‘almost 1,000 pubs have closed since the Celtic Tiger economy peaked in 2006 and publicans warn that a further 5,000 jobs will be lost during 2012.’ But the reality today is that Irish social habits have changed irreversibly. With the recession, people…
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