Famed, in its past life as Sachs Hotel, for its basement nightclub with... how can I put this politely? "a reputation for being suitable to meet a potential partner of an older age bracket", this was somewhere I wasn't sure when I'd visit as I had little desire to see that! Unsurprisingly, there's an awful boom-time Barry Egan celeb piece covering the hotel in the 70s and explaining the name.
However, it was renamed some time ago and a recent refit to the Hampton has removed the nightclub; but still leaves a bar which opens directly to the outside world and without much feeling of being in a hotel, and more like a suburban pub - modern but not attempting to be cool.
Its fine really. Donnybrook has other places to drink - although when O'Connells and Kielys closed within a short time of each other and with McCloskeys due to close at some point, it did look like this could be the only place to drink at this end of the village. Its the wrong end of the village to get the brunt of the traffic from the remaining games at "Energia Park", although there's sufficient space inside and out for quite a lot of people.
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