S0002 Doheny & Nesbitts

This pub has strong political and economics connections, quite specifically to the early days of Progressive Democrats party and people involved with it at that time. To that end, an area of the upstairs was reserved on the evening of my visit for a private party held by Tom Parlon, one-term PD TD and head of the Construction Federation of Ireland.

Its a nice looking pub, but that's about all I think it has going for it. Otherwise it was an all-round reminder of an era of the past I'd prefer we don't go back to, although it seems we are. Loud, obnoxious middle-aged men made up much of the crowd here, relatively early in the evening for that too. There's drink perching shelves in the corridors towards the toilets, showing how crammed it can get. People sit and stand in front of the bars, completely unaware that someone may actually want to order a drink.

This was pub #400 for me, well, #400 on the floating timeline of what is open. Its actually more like #410 when closed down premises are added or #420 if you added in premises that used to have pub & theatre licences seperately. I had actually intended somewhere else in the area as #400 but it didn't seem like a suitable night - it may be #500 or I'll never mention it again.