Irish Pub goers bring their own entertainment UKULELE Tuesdays -There’s another one that we can add to the list…
It was only a matter of time really, especially with newspaper headlines spouting tales of daily pub closures, decreasing…
Sad Story of The Rushes Inn. On my way from Kilkenny to Dublin the other day, I decided that as…
John Coffey’s Story The bar business is in John Coffey’s blood. He comes from several generations of publicans.…
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…
UKULELE Tuesdays -There’s another one that we can add to the list of uses for our much beloved Irish pub. Every Tuesday, upstairs at that well-known Dublin city centre watering hole, The Stags Head, they hold a session that they simply call ‘UKULELE Tuesdays’… basically a modern version of the old ‘come-all-ye’ – bring…
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…
John Coffey’s Story The bar business is in John Coffey’s blood. He comes from several generations of publicans. Originally from Newbridge in County Kildare, he grew up over his father’s pub on the main street in the town. He knows the trade inside and out, and is well respected and liked by his…
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…
‘Use it or lose it!’ Those are the words of Dr Ignazio Cabras of the University of York’s management school, who along with a group of British researchers is currently half way through a year long study of the Irish Pub. They will be looking at the vital economic role public houses play in…
The writing is on the wall for the humble pub quiz as well now. In a hilarious, but true piece, Sinead Moriarty writes in the Irish Independent about the death of the pub quiz as we know it. And the cause. Yes, you guessed it, the mobile phone. Well in fairness it was always…
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