It was only a matter of time really, especially with newspaper headlines spouting tales of daily pub closures, decreasing footfall in our pubs and numerous other changes in our social habits. But the Irish are an ingenious lot, or so we constantly like to tell ourselves! And ladies and gentlemen, a solution has been…
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…
Got a good laugh from this billboard. Came across it recently in one of the most remote spots you can find in Ireland, Carnsore Point in County Wexford. Carnesore Point is the most south-eastern point on the island of Ireland, it is so far removed in fact from the east-coast urban areas, that the…
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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