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…
Tag Archive for Pub closures
Rural Pubs, Stories
Rural pub owner speaks about the demise of the rural pub.
by Dominic Mealy •
Irish Pub Culture, Social, Stories
10 Things You Never Knew About Pete McCarthy
by Dominic Mealy •
Never pass a bar that has your name on it! Those immortal words, came in at number 8 on the ‘Rules of Travel’ of a certain Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson, who in 1998 wrote the wonderful book about Ireland, McCarthy’s Bar. He journeyed through the west of Ireland, from Cork to Donegal, in a hilarious…
News, Rural Pubs, Stories, Uncategorized
Beeronomics – You’re Joking me!
by Dominic Mealy •
History, Irish Pub Culture, Stories
D’Irish Pub – Our Story
by Dominic Mealy •
News
Alarming call to arms by The Sunday World
by Dominic Mealy •
Gone : Not Forgotten, History, Rural Pubs
Abandoned Pub in Co. Wexford.
by Dominic Mealy •
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…
News, Rural Pubs, Social
Rural publicans discuss the the issues.
by Dominic Mealy •
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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