N1218 Springfield Hotel

This is one of the few county border area hotels that may escape peoples notice - hiding as it does with a Kildare address in the licence file. However, the old Dublin series licence number gives away its actual location which is a few hundred metres inside the border.

The bar here is a fairly normal suburban hotel bar, used as a local by some nearby residents in both Leixlip and Lucan.

S3207 Harding Hotel / Darkey Kelly's

A tourist bar with an awful name. Surprisingly decent selection of drinks though!

November 2017 Licence Update

This is the first licence update after the annual renewal point as as normal about 40% of all premises have not renewed their licence yet. Anything which is actually removed this month won't be noticed until next October's list comes out, unfortunately

There are still some changes:

New
1013276 Omniplex Rathmines - I presume this is a reaction to the Stella Cinema across the road reopening with drinks service; I expect the Stella itself to turn up in the next few months

Renumbered
1013257 Gibneys Malahide renumbered from N0316

N2198 Liberty Hall

This is one of the more difficult public licenced premises to get a drink in - its not open to the public very often and most events that it are open for are ticketed. I suspect SIPTU members will have more potential events to go to and possibly some political parties too

This has a public licence due to the Liberty Hall Theatre - this is the large two storey building to the side of the tower. The bar itself is the first floor of the tower and is actually quite large but has a total of two sets of two identical taps - Guinness and Budweiser - and a small range of bottles and spirits.

I was there for the Irish Stand event, which hopefully won't need to be held again next year - with any luck Trump will be gone. There's a panto on - for all of three days - in December this year which is probably the next potential chance for someone to visit.