S0056 The Bailey

This relatively food- (and these days tourist-) oriented pub on Duke Street was one of a few glaring misses among the long-established city centre pubs for me. A relatively narrow and long pub, the sort-of heated outdoor seating area probably has as much capacity as the entire indoors does.

There's a few things of interest here in what is other a relatively generic - but perfectly fine - pub. One is that they had matchbooks, something rarely seen in Ireland since the 2004 smoking ban. One was acquired for my small collection of pub bits, to be placed alongside a token and bag from Token and a toothpick book from The Legal Eagle.

The other is something historical. For many years, the pub had a basically inexplicable statue of a sailor with a sextant on the wall, but this has since gone missing