There’s always the danger that on a pub crawl the pubs can blur into one another… None of the following information may bear any relation to real or actual events or pubs in Dublin.
Handily located around the corner from Lansdowne Road is The School House. The pub is located on Lower Mount Street which was at the heart of the 1920 uprising and has many a bullet hole to prove it’s part in the struggle.
Somehow we fell lucky and ended up in the armchairs by the fire at one end. Though the bar has plenty of standing space and it was an easy spot to rest up for a round or two before heading further into town.
The rest of the post match crawl took in a huge range and variety of boozers.
The décor of the Café en Seine is worth the visit alone. More amazing to my mind than the beautiful décor and the enormous size of this pub was the self service tables. What an innovation! Towards the rear of the place the tables have lager and Guinness pumps on them. You pour your own pints and the apparatus keeps a running tally on how much you get through. An interesting idea though maybe a lethal one for the pocket and the liver!
We then went to a tiny pub downstairs where the locals were celebrating Dervla O'Rourke winning a Silver medal in the 110m hurdles at the European Athletic Championships.
We then headed to another pub. This one was a bit non-descript and all I can remember about it is that we sat at the front.
From there we headed to The Stag and to the surprise of those leading the crawl we managed to get a table. The Stag is a great boozer and here we fell into chat with people from outside our party for the first time. I think this means we were having some Craic.
No first timers Dublin bar crawl could be complete without a visit to The Temple Bar at the heart of the good time district bearing the same name. I remember it being so crowded that everyone ended up separated from one another and after a toilet break and some mild crowd squash injuries we moved on. I think it was busy because all the backpackers in Dublin were forcing themselves in to hear band doing some U2 karaoke.
We then ended up in another big pub chatting away with some hilarious fellas about god knows what. The main thing I can remember about this place was it was the bar where we started putting port into the tops of our Guinness.
Hence some of the finer details such as the name and location being a tad blurry.
And although we didn’t go, I want it on record that there is a pub on College Green called The Bank, which is a converted bank and where the toilets are in the old vaults!
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